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Organizations
In 1861, authority was given by the War Department to Colonel Berdan to to organize the 1st Regiment U. S. Sharp-shooters, the companies to be raised in the several states, one being assigned to Michigan. The company was recruited at large, equipped and armed by the State. In the selection of its membership it underwent a most severe test as to marksmanship, by a commission appointed by the Governor of the State, composed of Colonels E. 0. Grosvenor, Wm. Hammond, and Jerome Croul, aids-de-ca'mp to the Commander-in-chief and members of the State Military Board. The result of this test was the selection of a hundred of the best marksmen in the State. The company was armed with rifles chosen by each member respectively, being of the various makes and sizes of the common hunting rifle in use in the west at the time. It was mustered into the service of the U. S. at Detroit, on the 21st of August, 1861, in command of Captain Benjamin Deusler of Quincy, with First Lieutenant, Floyd A. Willett, of Kalamazoo, and Second Lieutenant, James H. Baker, of Lansing.
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