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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
A statement sent to the Adjutant General's office from the War Department gave, on the 26th of May, a surplus to be applied on the impending draft of 4, 403 men. It had been the practice, in the absence of official data from Washington, to estimate the quota of Michigan under the calls of 1861 at 19, 500, that being about the result of calculations based upon the census returns of population. It appeared by this statement, however, that the Federal authorities had assumed 21, 357 as the apportionment of the State under the call referred to. Notwithstanding the diminution occasioned by this discovery, the surplus credited to us still appeared to be considerably less than was due the State according to its own records, and after correspondence and examination the legitimate credit of the State was estimated on the 19th of September at a total, reduced to a three years' standard, of 9, 518, including such as had been enlisted since the statement of May 26th.
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