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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
The agencies were managed by gentlemen much in sympathy with the cause of the soldiers, taking much interest in their welfare, consequently laboring faithfully in their behalf.
The quota of the State, under the President's call of August 4th, 1862, for 300, 000 militia remaining unfilled, a draft was made in February following, on the basis of the census of 1860, in the counties then in arrears for the small deficiency then existing. The number of men drafted was 1, 278. Of this number (either of themselves or by substitutes), 710 were delivered at the United States barracks at Detroit, 545 of whom were sent to various regiments and batteries in the field, a few of the remainder deserting, while others were discharged for alienage, disability, or other causes, by United States authorities.
American Civil War
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