Memorial Day weekend 2018: Houghton, Michigan rememberances

While filling up my Honda Civic last summer as Mrs. Marathon Pundit plowed our way up the Keweenaw Peninsula on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Just before the drawbridge over the Portage Lake Lift Bridge in Houghton Michigan I found a couple of monuments.

The base of this Civil War statue reads, "In memory of the Houghton Company, July 1862--July 1865" and "The Houghton Company served three years as Company I, 23rd Michigan Infantry."

As with most Michigan Civil War regiments, the 23rd served in the Western Theatre of the war.

This Purple Heart monument, which stands nearby, reads, "Dedicated to all the men and women wounded in all our wars."