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Colored Infantry Civil War
Regiment Coloed Infantry
102D U.S.
I am instructed by the Governor to inform you that you are fully authorized and empowered to raise and organize such a regiment, under the instructions from the War Department which are herewith enclosed, and under such restrictions as the Governor may deem proper to enjoin on you.
Very respectfully, your obed't serv't,
JNO. ROBERTSON,
Adjutant General.
Under this authority Michigan raised the colored regiment originally known as the 1st Michigan Colored Infantry, but afterwards its designation was changed by order of the War Department to the 102d Regiment United States Colored Troops.
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