Upper Country: A Journal of the Lake Superior Region Volume 6 Article 3 2018 The Great War and Lake Superior PART 2 Russell M. Magnaghi Northern Michigan University,
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[email protected]. Magnaghi: The Great War and Lake Superior PART 2 The Great War and Lake Superior PART 2 Russell M. Magnaghi [Editor’s note: this is Part 2 and the conclusion of the article] Preparing for War Before and during the war various programs were developed to prepare young men for immediate conscription into the Army and Navy. Since the late 1890s the US Navy leased the USS Gopher and the USS Yantic to the Naval National Guard in Minnesota and Michigan. The former was docked at Duluth and the other at Hancock. When the war broke out over two hundred men were sent with their ships to the East Coast and joined the Navy having been prepared for action. A few days after declaration of war, some forty male students at Northern State Normal School (today Northern Michigan University) were drilling as they were in both high schools and colleges around the lake.