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Organizations
It would have afforded much pleasure to have been able to notice these companies more fully, but sufficient data cannot be obtained for that purpose.
In the month of April, 1862, Captain G. S. Wormer, of Detroit, was authorized to raise and equip a company of infantry to serve as a guard over Generals Burrows and Harding, and Judge Hill, all influential citizens of Nashville, Tennessee, then rebel prisoners on the Island of Mackinac, and who had been arrested for treason by Andrew Johnson, then military governor of that State. This company was designated the " Stanton Guard," It was mustered into the service May 10th, with Grover S. Wormer, Detroit, Captain; Elias F. Sutton, First Lieutenant, and Louis Hartmeyer, Detroit, Second Lieutenant, ■ and immediately took transport for Mackinac, where it served until the 25th of September following, when it was disbanded, the necessity for the service having passed away by the release of the prisoners.
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