. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . mus-ter-out as musketmen, but, let this ever be remembered, tofurnish almost instantly seven hundred officers for the newlyorganizing regiments, regular and volunteer. Two little classes of AVest Point cadets, graduated in Mayand June respectively, brave boys just out of their bell-but-toned coatees, were set in saddle and hard at work drillingwhole battalions of raw lads from the shops and farms, whoseelected officers were to the full as untaught as their fame as a drillmaster of cadets or Zouaves gave many ayoung fellow
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . mus-ter-out as musketmen, but, let this ever be remembered, tofurnish almost instantly seven hundred officers for the newlyorganizing regiments, regular and volunteer. Two little classes of AVest Point cadets, graduated in Mayand June respectively, brave boys just out of their bell-but-toned coatees, were set in saddle and hard at work drillingwhole battalions of raw lads from the shops and farms, whoseelected officers were to the full as untaught as their fame as a drillmaster of cadets or Zouaves gave many ayoung fellow command of a company; some few, indeed, likeEllsworth, even of a regiment. Foreign soldiers of fortune,seeing their chance, had hurried to our shores and tenderedtheir swords, many of them who could barely speak Englishreceiving high commissions, and swaggering splendidly aboutthe camps and streets. Many of the regiments came headedby local politicians, some who, but the year gone by, had beenfervent supporters of Southern rights and slavery. A favored [76]. IN THE QUOTA FROM MICHIGANWOODSMEN OF THE NORTH WITH THEIR TASSELED CAPS An officer, privates, and bandsmen ofthe Fourth Michigan Infantry, whocame from the West in their tasseledcaps to fight for the Union cause. Bythe close of the war Michigan had senteleven regiments and two companiesof cavalry, a regiment of heavyartillery, fourteen batteries of lightartillery, a regiment and a companyof engineers, a regiment and eightcompanies of sharpshooters, andthirty-five regiments and two com-panies of infantry to the front. In
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