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Koning, ArieDescription
Image of Holland MI resident Arie Koning's record of service in the "Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, Vol. 25" and obituary in the March 8th, 1917 edition of Holland City News on the first page.History
Arie Koning was born on February 18th, 1844 in the Netherlands. On August 14th, 1862, he enlisted with the 25th Michigan Infantry Co. I, in which he served until the regiment was mustered out on June 24th, 1865. After the war, he became a sailor and also served as Holland's first policeman. Arie passed on March 6th, 1917 of gangrene at the Grand Rapids Soldiers Home. He is interred in Pilgrim Home Cemetery.The 25th Michigan Infantry Company I was largely made up of Dutch immigrants from Holland, Michigan and its surrounding areas. The company is most famous for its involvement in the Battle at Tebb's Bend, where roughly 200 Union soldiers repulsed an attack by the Confederate general John Hunt Morgan and his raiders. The 25th Infantry was also involved in several campaigns in Eastern Tennessee and Sherman's March to the Sea, where the 25th fought at Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Cassville, Kingston, Allatoona, Pine Mountain, Lost Mountain, and Kenesaw. The regiment also took part in the siege of Atlanta. The regiment was mustered out on June 24th, 1865.