. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . CAPTAIN EI1ER B. HON. DUNCAN STEWART. RAISING THE REG! VIENT. 29 For this purpose Adjutant-General John Robertson and Henry Barnsof the Advertiser and Tribune went to Jackson to confer withGovernor Blair. MRS. BLAIRS TIMELY INFLUENCE. The Governor had met with some difficulty in getting troopsaccepted by the War Department. He had sent sixteen infantryregiments, and the seventeenth was being recruited with difficult) new ones were called for, which would make twenty-thre
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . CAPTAIN EI1ER B. HON. DUNCAN STEWART. RAISING THE REG! VIENT. 29 For this purpose Adjutant-General John Robertson and Henry Barnsof the Advertiser and Tribune went to Jackson to confer withGovernor Blair. MRS. BLAIRS TIMELY INFLUENCE. The Governor had met with some difficulty in getting troopsaccepted by the War Department. He had sent sixteen infantryregiments, and the seventeenth was being recruited with difficult) new ones were called for, which would make twenty-three ; andto attempt the twenty-fourth might retard the raising of the consent was withheld until morning, when he refused. had been a listener to the conversations for the extraregiment, and now told her husband that the morning papers broughtbad news from the seat of war; that the government needed all themen it could get, and that, in her opinion, the request of the twogentlemen from Detroit should be granted, and the Governor finallyconsented. Little did this patriotic lady think that her influence onthis occ
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