Tour #4, Stop #4 - Cane Creek

Col. John M. Oliver

Remembering Michigan's Civil War Soldiers

At 7:30 a.m. on October 3, 1862, Union Colonel John Oliver's brigade, along with one section of Captain Emil Munch's 1^st Minnesota Battery and an independent company of cavalry, fought a delaying action against the attacking Confederates of Major General Mansfield Lovell's division.