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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
The Adjutant General's report for 1864 contains the following:
" During the past year the calls made by the General Government on the State for troops to sustain the National armies in the field were filled with the usual promptness and cordiality of the people, and notwithstanding the long and unexpected continuance of the war, thereby causing the necessity for repeated and urgent demands on the men in the State capable of bearing arms, to fill the depleted ranks, and upon all classes for means in shape of bounties to encourage and secure the recruitment of quotas, and upon individuals in payment for substitutes, the claims of the Government were liberally met and the account more than balanced, and although the drafts, in many instances, bore hard on
American Civil War
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