"Where were you when President Lincoln was shot?" Impossible to answer since no one living today was alive in 1865. Many of us, however, do have answers to other similar events that have shaped the United States- "Where were you when Pearl Harbor was bombed?", "Where were you when President Kennedy was assassinated?", "Where were you when the World Trade Center went down?". Will we tell our children, grand children and great grandchildren of our experiences during those times or will those rememberances be lost in time?
Over the next couple months I will be exploring Christian Hiller and his Civil War service in the Michigan 9th Infantry. Beginning with July's post as an introduction to his service and then, hopefully, in August I will have received his service and pension records from the National Archives and can add more detail. Oh, yes, and I will answer the question "Where was Christian when President Lincoln was shot?". View the first installment on the Hiller page below, Christian Hiller and the Michigan 9th Infantry, July 31, 2017.