At this time Colonel John Stockton, of Mount Clemens, and Captain James I. David, of Trenton, then a quartermaster U. S. A., had received authority from the War Department, which was sanctioned by the Governor, to raise each a cavalry regiment, when the 8th and 9th were thereupon ordered organized, the former having its rendezvous at Mount Clemens and the latter at Coldwater. Following this, with a view to getting up an Irish regiment, the 28th was authorized, under the direction of Colonel Edward Doyle, of Detroit, with rendezvous at Ypsilanti.