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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
and who by their fortitude and soldierly bearing under the privations and hardships of a soldier's life, 'in camp and field, through march and siege, ' and by their indomitable bravery and heroism on scores of battle fields, have won exalted honor to themselves, and crowned with unfading glory the name and fame of Michigan. "
With the great increase of Government, State, and local bounties in 1864 commenced the decrease of patriotism to a great extent among those enlisting outside of the armies in the field, which continued to lessen and lessen, and at the commencement of 1865 was not held out as any part of the inducements to enter the service. Enlistments had become a matter of bargain and sale, dollars and cents almost entirely ruling the action.
American Civil War
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