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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
and the events of the past year have served but to increase our confidence in the permanency and power of our republican institutions. The nation, it is true, has been sorely tried, yet it has exhibited strength and resources far beyond the
most sanguine hopes of its friends; while its enemies, both at home and abroad, have been compelled to confess their disappointment. "
Nor were they forgotten by the Legislature of the State; for on the 22d of February, 1865, that body passed the following concurrent resolution:
"Resolved, by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That on this anniversary of the birthday of the Father of his Country the thanks of this Legislature, and through us of the people of the State, are hereby tendered to the soldiers of Michigan who promptly responded to the call of their country in its time of peril;
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