Son of one time Michigan Secretery of State William Graves, brother-in-law of Brevet Major General Henry A. Morrowo of the famed 24th Michigan Regiment of Volunteers of the famous Iron Brigade. He was the Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th Michigan Regiment of Volunteers 1861-1863, Colonel 8th Michigan Regmient of Volunteers 1863-1864. Participated in 21 major battles of the Civil War before he was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness May 6, 1864. Only this short bio stands in monument to him on his families grave marker in Silverbrook Cemetery in Niles, Berrien County, Michigan. Since he was killed at the Wilderness and since the casualty figure was so extremely high and the circumstnaces surrounding the battle so grotesque, he was more than likely buried on the battle field following the fighting, or the body was cremated by the forest fires that were sparked there on account of buring lint and powder of musketry and artillery falling on the floor of the dried out wilderness.
Son of one time Michigan Secretery of State William Graves, brother-in-law of Brevet Major General Henry A. Morrowo of the famed 24th Michigan Regiment of Volunteers of the famous Iron Brigade. He was the Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th Michigan Regiment of Volunteers 1861-1863, Colonel 8th Michigan Regmient of Volunteers 1863-1864. Participated in 21 major battles of the Civil War before he was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness May 6, 1864. Only this short bio stands in monument to him on his families grave marker in Silverbrook Cemetery in Niles, Berrien County, Michigan. Since he was killed at the Wilderness and since the casualty figure was so extremely high and the circumstnaces surrounding the battle so grotesque, he was more than likely buried on the battle field following the fighting, or the body was cremated by the forest fires that were sparked there on account of buring lint and powder of musketry and artillery falling on the floor of the dried out wilderness.
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