Part 2: Governor Austin Blair

This episode, part two of a two-part program on Austin Blair, continues an examination of Blair's life and people remember or memorialize historical events and people. Topics covered include the Civil War, Michigan politics during the Civil War, Austin Blair's political career and the memorial erected in his honor on the State Capitol grounds in Lansing.Keywords: Austin Blair, Ulysses S Grant, Civil War, Michigan, Union, Confederacy, Confederate Flag, Civil War Regiments, Michigan Politics, Michigan Capitol, Lansing, Republican Party, Liberal Republican Party, Horace Greeley, Reconstruction, Ku Klux Klan, United States Constitution, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Freedmen, Slavery, Grant’s Memoirs