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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
The report of the Adjutant General's department for 1863 showed that the actual number of men furnished by the State from the beginning of the war to December 31st, 1863, was 53, 749; the number furnished during the first ten months of 1864, as shown above is 27, 616; making a total to November 1st, 1864, of 81, 365. The true credit of the State, as represented at the War Department, up to the last date mentioned, is obtained by adding the number of men commuting, viz.: 1, 982; showing the total credit of the State to be 83, 347.
The striking fact is exhibited by these figures that during ten months only of 1864 the State of Michigan had furnished more than half as many men for the service as were sent from the State during the whole of the first three years of the war, and of this large number of men actually furnished, only 1, 600 were drafted.
American Civil War
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