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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 2.21 (search)
ement that enabled Lieutenant Rogers to save a long picket-line that was to have been sacrificed when we fell back. Racine, Wis., October 3d, 1886. Ii. By Orson B. Curtis, Corporal, Co. D, 24th Michigan. Since Private Smith, above, mentions the 24th Michigan as bounty men, let me state that in July, 1862, a war meeting held in Detroit to promote enlistments under Lincoln's call for 300,000 men was broken up by the disturbance created by a large number of Confederate refugees from Windsor, Canada, with the aid of some antiwar men here. To wipe out the unexpected insult, a second war meeting was held, which resolved to raise immediately an entire regiment,--the 24th Michigan,--in Wayne County alone, in addition to its regular quota; and within 20 days said regiment was recruited and mustered, 1027 strong. Not a man of us received a cent of State or county bounty. Each man, however, did receive, in advance, one month's pay and $25 of the regular $100 government bounty promised