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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
The final credit allowed Michigan by the Provost Marshal was 90, 018.
The following is taken from the same work made up from the Provost Marshal General's report:
"The recorded number of deserters was 268, 530, although the Provost Marshal General considers that about one-fourth of these were subsequently accounted for. More than 16, 000 were arrested, but probably as many as 125, 000 different enlistments failed to yield soldiers to the army, although they led to their entry upon the official records.
"In general, the manufacturing States, as, for instance, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey, rank high in the column of desertion; and this result is to be attributed to the fact that such States are dotted with towns and cities. '
American Civil War
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