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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
On January 1st, 1865, the 11th Regiment of Infantry was in process of recruitment, and the organization of the 30th, designed for duty on the Michigan frontier, was completed on the 9th and mustered into service with the maximum number, and at once assigned to duty along the Detroit and St. Clair rivers, with headquarters at Detroit. Little progress, however, had been made in filling up the 11th until February, when vigorous measures toward that end were adopted, and on the 4th of March four companies left camp at Jackson, for Nashville, Tennessee. On the 18th of the same month the remaining six companies had completed their organization, and on that day also took the route to Nashville, in command of Colonel P. H. Keegan, the muster-in rolls of the regiment showing a strength of 898 officers and men.
American Civil War
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