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Article: A great revolution in feeling: the American Civil War in Niles and grand rapids, Michigan.
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- Michigan Historical Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Shortly before eating his noonday meal on March 12, 1862, Charles Phillips of Niles, Michigan, received a telegram that announced the death of his son, William Phillips. William, who had been serving in the Third Michigan Cavalry, caught a fever shortly after the battle of Fort Donelson on February 16 and succumbed to disease in the early hours of March 3. The Reverend Phillips, preaching the next Sunday from his pulpit at Trinity Episcopal Church, urged his congregation to remain steadfast in its support for the war. It was the Lenten season, so he had even more reason to urge them to take up both "the sword and cross that Christ calls us to bear." (1)
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