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Catalog Number
2019.1.1426
Description
Photograph taken in 1984 by Randy Vande Water of a headstone in the cemetery at the site of the Battle of Tebbs Bend.   On the headstone is engraved: "11911 Hendrikus Nyland Michigan."

Company I and the 25th Michigan Infantry distinguished themselves at the Battle of Tebbs Bend, Kentucky on July 4, 1863. Under the command of Colonel Orlando Moore, a small band of Union infantrymen were charged with keeping the Confederates from crossing the Green River and moving on to Louisville. 
The men, including soldiers from Holland and Zeeland, held off eight attacks by unmounted Confederate cavalrymen led by celebrated General John Hunt Morgan.  Morgan was forced to bypass that spot and move instead to Lebanon, Kentucky.

 
History
Randall P. "Randy" Vande Water was a local historian and newspaper editor. He spent 4 decades at the Holland Sentinel working as sports editor, city editor, editorial page editor, and managing editor.
Gift of
Mary Vande Water, in honor of her husband Randy Vande Water.