There were raised at Grand Rapids three batteries, the Second, Ross' Battery, the Third, Dees' Battery, and the Thirteenth Battery

The Second, Ross' Battery

Ross' left December 17, 1861, and at Pittsburg Landing, being cut off from infantry support, it lost four of its six pieces, and sixty officers and men.  After being connected with a Missouri battery, it was supplied with new guns, and operated in West Tennessee.

The Third, Dee's Battery

Dee's Battery left the same days as Ross', and was engaged at the siege of Corinth, at Inka, and on November 30, 1862, had 108 men, who were assigned to West Tennessee under Capt. George Robinson.  It is credited with sixteen battles and skirmishes, from Pittsburg, Landing, April 6, 1826, to Bentonville, NC, March 21-22, 1865, having marched "with Sherman to the sea."

The Thirteenth Battery

The Thirteenth Battery was mustered in on January 20, 1864, with 160 names.  On February 3rd it left for Washington, and after drilling was ordered to Fort Slemmer, D. C.  On July 11th and 12th it assisted in repelling the attack of Early on Fort Stevens.

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Grand Haven and Ottawa County

In Grand Haven and Ottawa County generally, a sustained feeling of the most ardent patriotism existed throughout the contest with the Southern Confederacy, and many were the noble and generous deeds that might be recorded.  Senator Ferry, the late C. B. Albee, and many others, were liberal of their menas, and attentive to the wants of the soldier and those near and dear to him.
Capt. Elmer H. Dicey, then a machinist in the city, and now of Chicago, raised a company at the opening of the war, Co. B of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, which left sixty strong and rendezvoused at Kalamazoo, entering the Army of the Potomac, in Burnside's 9th Corps.  On the 30th of June, 1864, at the explosion of the mine before Petersburg, all the commissioned officers of the company were either killed or wounded, and Orderly Sergeant D. P. Sanford became the leading officer, and the company was the first to enter Petersburg.
Co. G, 21st Michigan Infantry, rendezvoused at Ionia under Capt. Horace Albee, Isaac Hunting, of Grand Haven, Major, and this company was raised chiefly at Grand Haven, Alderman Isaac H. Sanford, the clothier, and others, taking an active part in organizing it, and also a company in the 3rd Michigan Infantry.
There was one company of the 14th Michigan Infantry, composed chiefly of men from Grand Haven and vicinity; and there were many Ottawa men in the Mechanics and Engineers.
Grand Haven never was behind in the tally of men required, and when the was was over, the city had overpaid its quota by 106 years service, which divided by three, would give nearly 35 men over, as the term of enlistment was for three years.  The city was always liberal in entertaining and banqueting the men in passing through the city.  Although the majority was always democratic, they were war Democrats.
There were a number of Grand Haven men in Loomis' Battery, among others John Miller, one of the youngest in the battery, which was raised in Coldwater.
H. C. Akeley was in the 2nd Cavalry, as was also Lieut. G. H. Osgood.  James A. Stephenson was in the 3rd Cavalry.  Among the other veterans, either from the city or now residents, may be mentioned Major B. D. Safford, Capt. S. C. Moore, Capt. Glover, John Thornton, Senator Farr, Major N. H. Ferry, and three of the Sandford family, G. D., H., and D. P.