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    The Gratiot Military Prison, commonly known as the Gratiot Street Prison, was a military prison located in St. Louis, and the largest in Missouri at the...
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    Boston's Fort Warren". Civilwarnews.com. Retrieved July 19, 2013. "Gratiot Street Prison". Civilwarstlouis.com. January 25, 2001. Archived from the original...
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    Eakin. Missouri Prisoners of War from Gratiot Street Prison & Myrtle Street Prison, St. Louis, Mo. and Alton Prison, Alton, Illinois: Including Citizens...
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    M. Jeff Thompson (category Military personnel from West Virginia)
    was captured in August in Arkansas, and spent time in St. Louis' Gratiot Military Prison, as well as at the Fort Delaware and Johnson's Island prisoner-of-war...
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    Clell Miller (category Prisoners and detainees of the United States military)
    because of his youth, he was sent to St. Louis, Missouri, at the Gratiot Street Prison. His father obtained his release in April 1865, perjuring himself...
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    Jefferson Davis (category American military personnel of the Indian Wars)
    was often blamed for the Confederacy's defeat, but after his release from prison, the Lost Cause of the Confederacy movement considered him to be a hero...
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    Wayback Machine Gratiot Street Prison, Civil War St. Louis Illinois State Historical Library Ohio State Penitentiary The "Old Capitol" Prison, By Colonel...
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    Robert E. Lee (category 19th-century American military personnel)
    Ravensworth on July 26, 1829. On August 11, 1829, Brigadier General Charles Gratiot ordered Lee to Cockspur Island, Georgia. The plan was to build a fort on...
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    Louis, which was Union-controlled, he was briefly confined in the Gratiot Street Prison, but was allowed to swear an oath of allegiance to the Union and...
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    Max Stephan (category Nazis who died in prison custody)
    until 1917 as a guard at a military prison camp for deserters. During the final year of the war, he was assigned to a military post office where he was...
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  • was dedicated to this doctor at the streets of East Grand Boulevard and Gratiot Avenue. Leaders on both sides had explanations for the violence, effectively...
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    meet one last time in Copper Harbor where M-26 ends. US 41 turns east on Gratiot Street to pass through town towards Fort Wilkins State Park. A mileage...
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  • 2020. Retrieved March 23, 2020. Hatfield, J. W. (November 5, 1979). "Gratiot House". NRHP Inventory-Nomination Form. National Park Service. Archived...
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    historical center of Detroit's Italian-American community was in an area along Gratiot Avenue, east of Downtown Detroit. During that period, Italian immigrants...
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    residential district. The 78-acre (32 ha) development was originally called the Gratiot Park. Planned by Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Alfred Caldwell...
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  • Fort Leavenworth 'The Rookery' Leavenworth KS 1829 Military The oldest building in Kansas. Fort Gratiot Light Port Huron MI 1829 Lighthouse First lighthouse...
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    Hell:Military Prisons of the Civil War. Stackpole Books. ISBN 0811749193, 9780811749190. Available on Google Books. Retrieved December 26, 2014. Gratiot Street...
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    to their final destination, prison at Fortress Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. They were held only a few weeks at the prison, during which they posed for...
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    Bottom and Paradise Valley (located on Detroit's lower east side, south of Gratiot) were examples of African-American neighborhoods that formed as a result...
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  • including land. Citing the 1840 Supreme Court case, United States v. Gratiot, which ruled that "the power over the public lands is vested in Congress...
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    as a chaplain for prisoners of war at the Gratiot Street Prison. In the same parish was a government military hospital. Every day Ryan visited the Confederate...
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  • Featured discussion of the Saginaw area in the 1830s. August 1, 1997 Fort Gratiot, Michigan Featured discussion with Rep. Walter Capps. August 5, 1997 Sault...
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    County, Michigan Gogebic County, Michigan Grand Traverse County, Michigan Gratiot County, Michigan Hillsdale County, Michigan Houghton County, Michigan Huron...
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    John Wimer (category Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War)
    native state of Virginia; In 1862 he was arrested and held at Gratiot Street Military Prison and Alton Penitientiary, but Wimer escaped in December 1862...
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    Black Hawk War (category Military history of Michigan)
    Jackson in Washington, D.C., before being taken to Fort Monroe. Even in prison they were treated as celebrities: they posed for portraits by artists such...
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    The British Band was victorious at the Battle of Stillman's Run and the military engagements that followed were insignificant until the final two encounters:...
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  • 46th Arkansas Infantry (Mounted) (category Military units and formations disestablished in 1865)
    from among prisoners of war being held by the United States at Gratiot Street Military Prison, St. Louis, Missouri. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF MISSOURI, Office...
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    Samuel Whiteside (category Military personnel from Illinois)
    on the condition that his people would suffer no reprisals, but died in prison a year later. From April 26 to June 30, 1832, during the Black Hawk War...
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    disappeared, the others stood trial and were convicted of murder. Two received prison sentences while another three, Granville Young and brothers John and Aaron...
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    country. In 1893, he began construction of J. L. Hudson Department Store at Gratiot and Farmer streets in Detroit. The store grew over the years and a 25-story...
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