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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
communities and individuals, yet they were fully carried into effect, and the laws under which they were made strongly and peacefully sustained in every section of the State, thereby again persistently attesting the loyal patriotism of her law-abiding people, their determination to uphold all efforts and measures having for their objects the forcible overthrow of the rebellion, the punishment of traitors wherever found, and the re-establishment of National obedience to the constituted authorities of the land. "
Michigan commenced 1865 with that determination to crush out the rebel lion which had characterized her soldiers and people so far during the war, as expressed through the Legislature in the following resolution, included among the joint resolutions on the state of the Union, approved March 21st, 1865:
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