He served as Lt. Col. of the 2nd Michigan Infantry (Becoming LCol. on August 3rd 1861.)

Immediately following first Bull Run, he was sent on a mission to negotiate an agreement to stop picket shooting with Gen. Longstreet. After removing his blindfold, Larned recognized his Confederate escort, Col. Herman, of New Orleans, as an old friend.

He served with the Second Infantry for approximately one year when he was forced to resign due to sickness (By March 12th 1862 he had resigned) .

Col. Larned returned to his law practice in Detroit and became a social activist in education, criminal reform and the temperance movement. During the Polish Riots in Detroit in January, 1886, he was injured by stones and missiles.

He died at the home of his daughter in Devon, England on Nov. 25, 1893. His ashes were interred on the grounds of the family home in Detroit.

As a frame of reference, one of his children, Charles Pierpont Larned, was born on 9/30/63 and worked in his father's firm.

Other notable family members include BG Ebenezer Learned of Oxford, Mass., commander of a detachment of Minutemen at Bunker Hill and staffer to George Washington; Col. Benjamin F. Larned, Paymaster General of the Union Army through 1862; Col. Samuel Leonard, 13th Mass. Volunteers (Later BG in Warren's Corp) and Capt. Richard Larned, 2nd US Horse Artillery.

The above information was extracted from the Learned Genealogy, edited by William Law Learned and published in 1889, and on file in the Library of Congress.

Gerald Law Leonard
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