Tag: Michigan

Wikipedia says: Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit.

Michigan consists of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula resembles the shape of a mitten, and comprises a majority of the state’s land area. The Upper Peninsula (often called “the U.P.”) is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (8 km) channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The Mackinac Bridge connects the peninsulas. Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the United States, being bordered by four of the five Great Lakes and Lake St. Clair. It also has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. Michigan has the second-most water of any state, behind only Alaska.

…Michigan made a significant contribution to the Union in the American Civil War and sent more than forty regiments of volunteers to the federal armies.