"A considerable number of recruits had also been enlisted in the State during the summer and fall for the regular army, probably three or four hundred at least. " These troops, with the exception of a few of the earlier regiments that were mustered into service by the late lieutenant Colonel E. Backus, Captain J. C. Robinson, and Captain H. R. Miznor, U. S. army, were mustered under the direction of the late General J. R. Smith, U. S. army, a citizen and resident of Michigan, who was United States military commander in the State, and chief mustering officer until the adoption of the provost marshal's system, when he was detailed as commissary of musters, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. The energetic and faithful services rendered by him aided much in facilitating the speedy despatch of troops to the front. "