Faces of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry

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 Henry Mortimer Hempstead, Quarter Master Sergeant,

Co. M

Private Duncan Ross, Co. D

elisted: Sept. 20, 1861, reenlisted: Jan. 5, 1864;

sergeant; mustered out at Macon, GA, Aug. 17, 1865

photograph contributed by great grandson Bernard Ross

from Florence, AZ

 Major Russell E. Alger (1836-1907)

 Major in the 2nd Michigan Cavalry, later the colonel of the 5th

 Michigan Cavalry, governer of Michigan (1885-1887), US Secretary of

War, 1897-99, US Senator from Mich. 1902-1907. He died in Washington D.C. Jan.

24, 1907, and is buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit , Michigan.

Alger County, Michigan is named for him.