made known. Then hurrying thousands from all parts of the State rushed forward to respond; but amidst the volunteers, there were none more earnest, more enthusiastic, than the men of this county. Organization was pressed forward, ranks were filled up, and, when the crisis was apparent, few, if any, counties surpassed Macomb in the celerity of military movement, or in the number and quality of private soldiers and officers sent forth to the field. In this history of Macomb in the war for the Union, each regiment comprising any telling number of her citizens claims a very full notice. This is due to the people. It is also necessary for the purpose of rendering the history of that important period more familiar, and so the writer deems it a matter of the greatest importance to deal with the subject as extensively as the plan of this work will permit. In the first part of the chapter, the history of company organization is given, which is followed by regimental sketches and personal references to the troops and officers, in which the names of the soldiers of this county who died during the war, or survived their campaigns to receive honorable discharge, are recorded. To this section much attention has been given, and if an error should appear, it must be credited to a generally accepted theory, rather than to a want of attention or carelessness in compilation. The fall of Fort Sumter was a signal for the uprising of the State. The news of the calamity was flashed throughout the world on April 14, 1861, and early the next morning, the proclamation of President Lincoln was telegraphed to the chief executive officer of each State. The proclamation of Gov. Blair, addressed to the people of Michigan, was given to the public April 16, 1861, and on the same day, every man within the county was prepared to act a citizen's part. Notwithstanding the unparalleled enthusiasm, the great majority of the people retained their equanimity, with the result of beholding, within a brief space of time, every section of the State represented by soldiers prepared to fight to the bitter end in defense of cherished institutions, and for the extension of the principles of human liberty to all classes within the limits of the threatened Union. This, their zeal, was not animated by hostility to the slaveholders of the Southern States, but rather by a fraternal spirit, akin to that which urges the eldest brother to correct the persistent follies of his juniors; to lead them from criminal ways to the paths of family honor; to draw them far away from all that was cruel, diabolical and inhuman, and instruct them in all that is gentle, holy and sublime in the Republic. Many of the raw troops were not only animated by a patriotic feeling, but were also filled with the idea of the poet, who, in his unconscious republicanism, said: "I would not have a slave to till my ground, And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth I had much rather be myself the slave And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him." Thus animated, it is not a matter for surprise to find the first call to arms issued by the President answered nobly by the people. Previous to the beginning of hostilities, an independent military company was organized at Mt. Clemens. Before the actual formation of this company, war meetings were held and speeches made by Andrew A. Robertson, Giles Hubbard, Harleigh Carter, William M. Campbell and others. At length, a company was organized, with George C. Fletcher, Captain. This company was mustered into service with Judson S. Farrar, Captain; Edgar H. Shook, First Lieutenant; Henry C. Edgerly, Second Lieutenant. Edgar Weeks, then a lawyer of Mt. Clemens, was elected First Sergeant; James Fenton was appointed Drill Sergeant. The muster roll comprised forty names, among whom were William M. Connor, Sergeant; Peter Generous, H. W. Babcock, Alexander N. Delano, Capt. William Tucker, Nicholas Lacroix, Anson C. Town, Owen Cotten, Martin Conway, W. D. Lerick, Isaac Lerick, John R. Hubert, and others mentioned in the rosters. This company tendered its services to the Governor while the First Michigan Infantry (three months) was being organized, but, on account of the large number of volunteers who presented themselves, this company was ordered to await the organization of a second regiment. The uniform was gray, with green facings and large brass buttons, very showy in itself, surmounted with a tall velvet military hat trimmed with green. The company, after failing to be incorporated with the first three months' regiment, was disbanded, and the commissioned officers and musicians entered the camp of instruction at Fort Wayne, and remained there until after the first Bull Run, when those officers were ordered to return to Mt. Clemens, recruit the company at that place, and report at Detroit. This instruction was carried out, and on August 28, 1861, the men mustered into service, under the same officers, with the Fifth Michigan Infantry, Col. Henry D. Ferry commanding. This was among the first military companies organized in the northeastern counties of this State, and the first in Macomb County. APPOINTMENTS AND STATISTICS. Dexter Mussey was appointed Commissioner to carry out the draft ordered by the War Department July 9, 1861. The number of men enrolled by the Assessors of Macomb County September 10, 1862, was 3,485, of which number 2,666 were subject to draft, and 819 exempt. The whole number subject to draft in the State at that time was 91,071. Col. John Stockton, of Mt. Clemens, received authority from the War Department, in August, 1862, to form a regiment of cavalry, which authority was approved by Gov. Blair, and a commission issued to him October 3, 1862. The The draft of February, 1863, was made on the basis of the census of 1860. number of men actually drafted in Macomb was 127, of whom 64 reported at the rendezvous, 44 enlisted for three years, and 2 for nine months service. This draft was carried out in this county under Dexter Mussey. Under the United States act of March, 1863, Macomb formed a each Congressional district was formed into an enrollment canton. portion of the Fifth District. The returns point out that, during the summer of 1864, there were 2,068 white men and 11 colored citizens of the first class subject to military duty, aud 1,183 of the second class similarly subject, after the men of the first class had been called out. Up to January 1, 1864, there were 1,347 enlistments reported for Macomb County, and before the last day of October of that year, 760 more names were added to the roll, aggregating 2,107 men, from the period of the organization of the three-years regiments to October 31, 1864, not including the number who joined Col. Doyle's comand at Detroit, or the men who enlisted in the three-months regiments. Under the Presidential call of December 19, 1864, for 300,000 men, an enrollment was made in the several counties of the State. The report, dated December 31, 1864, points out the number of men liable to military service in Macomb County to be 2,018, of which number 225 was the quota of the county. From November 1, 1864, to the suspension of recruiting, April 14, 1865, the county was credited with 263 enlistments, with 963 enlistments under the system of district enrollment, making a total of 1,216 men from September 19, 1863, to the close of the war. The total representation of Macomb County in the State regiments may be set down as 2,500, of whom 900 enlisted under the enrollment system, 149 re-enlisted as veterans, 17 entered the naval service, 16 drafted men commuted, and 134 resulted from the draft. Of this number, 320 served for one year, 2 for two years, and 894 for three years. The enlistments previous to September 19, 1863 numbered 1,144 men, which, with the 1,216 referred to above, give a grand total of 2,360 men. At least 140 men entered Illinois and Indiana regiments, whose names are not given in the reports of this State, though appearing in the military records of the States referred to. The military vote of the Michigan troops was taken November 7, 1864. Under the act of February 5, 1864, the Governor was authorized to appoint a number of Commissioners to take this vote, which authority was put in practice October 14, 1864, when fortyone appointments were made. Among the Commissioners was William Hulsart, of Romeo, to whom was apportioned the labor of receiving the vote of the Eighth Michigan Cavalry, then at Nicholasville, Ky., and of the L and M Batteries, Michigan Artillery, serving with the Twenty-third Army Corps at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. The vote of the Eighth Cavalry was 105 for the Republican Electors-Robert R. Beecher, Thomas D. Gilbert, Frederick Waldorf, Marsh Giddings, Christian Eberbach, Perry Hannah, Omer D. Conger and George W. Pack. The Democratic Electors received 71 votes from the same command. The roll of Electors for whom this vote was given comprises the names of Sam T. Douglass, Rix Robinson, Henry Hart, Royal T. Twombly, D. Darwin Hughes, John Lewis, Michael E. Crofoot and Richard Edwards. Battery L and detachments gave 200 votes to the Republican Electoral ticket, and 57 to the Democratic ticket. Battery M gave 49 votes to the Republicans and 3 to the Democrats. Hon. Giles Hubbard, of Mt. Clemens, was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Association, at a meeting held August 11, 1865. How well this board performed its duty is shown in the sculptured monument, de |