Raising of Troops Governor Blair reached Detroit on Tuesday, April 16th, 1861, and in the afternoon, at the Michigan Exchange, met by arrangement the State Military Officers and a large number of leading citizens and capitalists of that city. The President of the United States had called upon the State to furnish one regiment of [...]
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page2 A sudden splendor fills the sky, From every hill the banners burst, Like buds by April breezes nurst; In every hamlet, home, and mart, The firebeat of a single heart Keeps time to strains whose pulses mix Our blood with that of Seventy-Six.” On April 16 a proclamation was issued by the Governor calling [...]
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page 3 fifteen dollars a month, and in case of the death of a soldier, to continue one year thereafter. This relief was unquestionably administered with that generous liberality which the law contemplated. Yet the duty was neither easy nor desirable, as it required much labor, good judgment, discrimination, and delicacy, at the same time [...]
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page 4 Friend Palmer, of Detroit, was appointed Assistant Quartermaster General in May following. His experience of several years in the Quartermaster’s department of the regular army rendered him a valuable officer’, and to him the State was greatly indebted for the efficient and economical direction given to the administration of that department. General William [...]
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page 5 In the meantime, authority had been received from the War Department to raise three other regiments, but at the same time stating that it was ” important to reduce rather than increase that number.” This authority only covered the 2d, 3d, and 4th Infantry, already in process of recruitment, while many companies throughout [...]
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page 6 Michigan, in response to this requisition, continued a vigorous recruitment, sending regiment after regiment to the field, and up to December, 1861, had sent to the front 13 regiments of infantry, 3 of cavalry, and 5 batteries of light artillery, with a total strength of 16,475 officers and men. Ten of these regiments, [...]
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page 7 No property of a rebel ought to ho free from confiscation—not even the sacred slave. The object of war is to destroy the power of the enemy, and whatever measures are calculated to accomplish that object, and are in accordance with the usages of civilized nations, ought to be employed. To undertake to [...]
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page 8 If our soldiers must die, do not let it be of the inactivity’and diseases of camps, but let them at least have the satisfaction of falling like soldiers, amid the roar of battle, and hearing the shouts of victory; then will they welcome it as the tired laborer welcomes sleep. Let us hope [...]
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page 9 Michigan does not hesitate to say, that in such exigency, slavery should be swept from the land, and our country maintained. ‘• Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. ” Approved January 18, 1862.” Recruiting [...]
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page 10 thus exhibiting a surplus of over 6,000 over and above the number required to comply with all the demands of the Government, and establishing a degree of patriotism and promptness unsurpassed by any other State. The following is taken from the lied Book of Michigan: During McClellan’s disastrous peninsula campaign in May and [...]
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