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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
On the 17th of October, the President of the United States issued a proclamation calling upon " the Governors of the different States to raise and have enlisted into the United States service for the various companies and regiments in the field from their respective States, their quotas of 300, 000 men. " It was further proclaimed that the large bounties previously ordered should be continued to volunteers, and that if any State or district should fail to fill its quota, a draft would be made on the 5th of January ensuing, for the deficiency. The quotas of the several Congressional districts of the State were assigned by the Provost Marshal General as follows: First district, 2, 137; second district, 2, 074; third district, 1, 861; fourth district, 1, 545; fifth district, 1, 768; sixth district, 1, 913—total for the State, 11,298.
American Civil War
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