Download or read book When Gallantry was Commonplace written by Leland W. Thornton and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eleventh Michigan Infantry was recruited during the fall of 1861 in St. Joseph, Branch, Hillsdale, Lenawee, and Monroe counties. In 1862 the Infantry was brigaded with the Eighteenth and Sixty-ninth Ohio and Nineteenth Illinois as Stanley's Brigade.