graduates of the University who had
fallen in the war. A committee appointed by the Alumni Association
presented the matter to the Board of Regents, but they were unable to
take any action. The project was never forgotten, however, and was
brought up year after year in alumni gatherings until in 1903 a
committee under the Chairmanship of Judge C.B. Grant, '59, a former
Colonel of the Twentieth Michigan, was appointed. This committee was so
successful in its efforts that the Memorial Building was eventually
dedicated in May, 1910. A large tablet by the sculptor A.A. Weinman
bearing the inscription given on the following page, was placed, in
June, 1914, on the right wall just inside the entrance.

A further investigation of the war records of the graduates of the
University revealed many more names than were known when the tablet was
designed, so that now the total in the morocco bound volume which is
conspicuously placed in the building carries the records of 2,424 who
served in the three wars.

THIS HALL ERECTED ANNO DOMINI 1909-1910
UNDER DIRECTION OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BY THE ALUMNI
AND FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN IS DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF HER PATRIOTIC SONS WHO SERVED IN

THREE OF HER COUNTRY'S WARS NAMELY
TWO IN THE MEXICAN WAR A.D. 1847
ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FOURTEEN
IN THE CIVIL WAR A.D. 1861-1865

FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY SIX IN THE SPANISH WAR A.D. 1898
A RECORD OF THEIR NAMES AND MILITARY HISTORY IS
DEPOSITED IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

* * * * *

THE WORLD WILL LITTLE NOTE NOR LONG REMEMBER WHAT WE
SAY HERE BUT IT CAN NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID HERE--
LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG

Though the number of Michigan men in the Spanish-American War was
naturally much smaller, the total mounted to very nearly four hundred,
of whom eight lost their lives, including one member of the Rough
Riders, Oliver B. Norton, '01_m_, killed by a shell at San Juan Hill. The
contingents from at least fifteen states included Michigan graduates,
but the greater number were to be found in the five Michigan volunteer
regiments, particularly the 31st and 32nd, though there were a number in
the 33rd and 34th that formed with the 9th Massachusetts the Brigade
commanded by Brigadier-General Henry M. Duffield, '58-'59, which was one
of the few volunteer units to see active service in Cuba.

In the Navy a large proportion of the Michigan men we