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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
The troops from Michigan, while absent from their homes, honoring their State in the field in these important campaigns, were never forgotten by the Executive, nor by the people. Governor Blair, in his message delivered to the Legislature, January 4th, 1865, greets them most affectionately from the Capitol of the State, on vacating the chair which he had so well filled and highly honored with distinguished ability and effciency during the years of the war that had passed. In the administration of his executive duties, he had been so devoted to the best interests of his State, so true and loyal to his country, so fair and clear in all his public acts, so untiring in the discharge of his arduous and perplexing duties, so eminently pure in his private life, and so thoughtful at all times of the soldier in the field, that his official career had been deservedly marked with great popularity among the troops, as well as with the entire people.
American Civil War
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