28th, which, after completing its organization at Kalamazoo, took its route thence for Nashville, October 26th, with 886 officers and men.

The Sixth District regiment completed its organization from its own territory, and was the first of the new regiments to leave the State, having broken camp at Saginaw and taken its departure for Nashville on the 6th of October, with 856 officers and men. The regiments originally known as the 30th and 29th having been consolidated with others, as mentioned above, this regiment was numbered the 29th.

Recruiting having been prosecuted with more or less vigor throughout the State, a draft took place on the 10th of June to fill deficiencies under all former calls, including that of October 17th, 1863, and those of February 1st and March 14th, 1864, which was followed by supplementary drafts in sub-districts which the principal draft failed to fill. And again, on the 20th of September, there was another draft to supply deficiencies under the call of July 18th and those which remained under the calls preceding it.

The results of the efforts made during the first ten months of the year in the several counties of this State to fill the armies of the United States, both by enlistment and by draft, are as follows: The number of volunteers enlisted in the army, 20,041; the number of men drafted, 1,956; the number of veterans re-enlisted, 5,445; the number of men enlisted in the navy, 430; the total credits in numbers, 27,972; the numbers credited on each term of service from the 1st of January to the 31st of October, 1864: One year, 5,002; two years, 39; three years, 22, 931.

The men who paid commutation, as provided by laws in force previous to July 4th, are included among the drafted men to the number of 356.

It is shown in this exhibit that the total number of men raised in the State between the 1st of January and 31st of October, 1864, including drafted men commuting, was 27,972; deduct men commuting, 356; total number of men actually raised during the ten months mentioned, 27,616.

The report of the Adjutant General's department for 1863 showed that the actual number of men furnished by the State from the beginning of the war to December 31st, 1863, was 53, 749; the number furnished during the first ten months of 1864, as shown above is 27,616; making a total to November 1st, 1864, of 81,365. The true credit of the State, as represented at the War Department, up to the last date mentioned, is obtained by adding the number of men commuting, viz.: 1,982; showing the total credit of the State to be 83,347.

The striking fact is exhibited by these figures that during ten months only of 1864 the State of Michigan had furnished more than half as many men for the service as were sent from the State during the whole of the first three years of the war, and of this large number of men actually furnished, only 1,600 were drafted.

The system of preserving records of credits by sub-districts, required by the law for enrolling and calling out the national forces, did not become practically operative until the 19th of September, 1863. In the books of the War Department enlistments made previous to that date were entered to the credit of the State at large. All that had been made after that were placed directly to the credit of the sub-district furnishing them.

APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF TROOPS

Furnished by the several Counties of the State, prior to November 1st, 1864. This Table does not include the Three Months' Infantry, Michigan Companies in Regiments of other States, and some 2,000 additional Soldiers whose residence could not be ascertained.

The above aggregate of credits is somewhat smaller that that shown in previous statements, and the difference is caused by the number enlisting in the earlier stages of the war whose residence was not reported or could not be obtained. The entire three months' regiment enlisting in 1861 is for this cause omitted from the figures of the statement.

The term of service of the 11th infantry having expired during the month of September, 1864, a desire was manifested by some of the officers of that regiment to renew its organization. Orders were issued accordingly, on the 3d of that month, and authority given to Colonel Wm. L. Stoughton to command the camp of rendezvous at Sturgis.

On the 3d of November, Major General Hooker, commanding the department, being in the State on a personal inspection, recommended to the Secretary of War that, in view of the exposed condition of the frontier, then threatened by outlaws and their sympathizers in Canada, and the limited number of troops posted for its defense, a regiment of volunteers for twelve months be raised in the State for duty along the Detroit and St. Clair rivers. Dispatches investing the Governor with authority for this purpose were the next day received from Washington, and on the 7th orders were issued to organize the 30th Infantry, with its rendezvous at Jackson. In acting upon applica

tions for authority to raise companies and parts of companies for this regiment, preference was given to those who had seen service. On the 22d, Lieut. Col. G. S. Wormer of the 8th Cavalry was appointed Colonel of the 30th, and commandant of the camp. Its rendezvous and headquarters were on the 10th of December removed to Detroit.

The approach of the winter caused no abatement of the activity of the Union armies, nor checked the increasing magnitude of their operations. To meet the necessities of the gigantic campaigns then going forward under the direction of the Lieutenant General, the President on the 19th of December issued a call for 300,000 men to supply a deficiency on the call of the 18th of July, and directing that should the quotas assigned not be filled before the 15th day of February following, a draft should be made for the deficiency then existing.

Enrollment of the several counties of the State, December 31, 1864, and their Quotas under call of December 19.

The following is taken from the Red Book of Michigan:

"The end of operations in 1864 found the Army of the Potomac in the trenches before Petersburg, holding Lee as in a trap, Sherman's army in possession of Savannah, and Thomas successful in Tennessee.

"This memorable year was fraught with great results to the Nation, effected by the unparalleled fighting of hosts of men, wading deep in human blood through carnage dense.

"The day and night advances of Grant's army on Richmond were to the Northern people movements producing intense anxiety, strong hope, fervent prayers for success, and sorrow and sadness for the patriots passing away.

"The desperate advance of Hood on Nashville had been most successfully met by General Thomas, his army completely defeated, routed, and driven in hot haste southward in a most demoralized condition.

"General Sherman had gallantly driven the enemy from beyond Chattanooga and onwards, had battered down his strong works at Atlanta, then bidding farewell to his friends, and placing both flanks of his noble army in air, swung off for the sea, leaving the Nation in great ignorance and intense uneasiness as to his movements and safety, and is first heard from in the dispatch of General Howard, of his army, saying: 'We have had perfect success, and the army is in fine spirits;' and then by General Sherman himself, sending to Abraham Lincoln a telegram covering the capture of Savannah as a Christmas present."

The Adjutant General's report for 1864 contains the following:

"During the past year the calls made by the General Government on the State for troops to sustain the National armies in the field were filled with the usual promptness and cordiality of the people, and notwithstanding the long and unexpected continuance of the war, thereby causing the necessity for repeated and urgent demands on the men in the State capable of bearing arms, to fill the depleted ranks, and upon all classes for means in shape of bounties to encourage and secure the recruitment of quotas, and upon individuals in payment for substitutes, the claims of the Government were liberally met and the account more than balanced, and although the drafts, in many instances, bore hard on communities and individuals, yet they were fully carried into effect, and the laws under which they were made strongly and peacefully sustained in every section of the State, thereby again persistently attesting the loyal patriotism of her law-abiding people, their determination to uphold all efforts and measures having for their objects the forcible overthrow of the rebellion, the punishment of traitors wherever found, and the re-establishment of National obedience to the constituted authorities of the land."

Michigan commenced 1865 with that determination to crush out the rebellion which had characterized her soldiers and people so far during the war, as expressed through the Legislature in the following resolution, included among the joint resolutions on the state of the Union, approved March 21st, 1865:

"Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That in the name, and in behalf of the people of the State of Michigan, we hereby reaffirm the devotion of this Commonwealth to the Constitution and Government of the United States, and the earnest determination of its people to do everything in their power to support and sustain the National