The meeting overflowed across the square into the street. Resolutions were passed supporting President lincoln and establishing a committee to assist in organizing military companies.
Four Ann Arbor military units were quickly formed. The "Silver Greays," a Home Guard unit made up of men over age forty-five, included Tappan and the town's most illustrious citizens.
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Citizens from town, country and university gathered on Courthouse Square for important civic events. In 1861, friends of the Union asssembled there to hear reports of the Confederate army attack on Fort Sumter. On April 15, university president Henry Tappan and other prominent townspeople went to the old Courthouse to address citizens about the crisis.
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