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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
Covered with the blood of patriots, cursed with the dying breath of starved prisoners, and abhorred by all good men for its barbarous butcheries of the unarmed who have ceased to fight, it must perish utterly. The people of this State, remembering their past sacrifices only as an additional motive to greater exertions in the future, will, I know, enter upon this present duty with the activity and energy which does not admit of failure.
" ' The quota assigned to the State is eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty-two (18, 282), of which only a little over twelve thousand (12, 000) remain to be recruited, or drafted if the recruiting fails.
American Civil War
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