The results of the military census, preparatory to making the draft, are presented in the following table taken from the Adjutant General's report for 1862. Where the figures are omitted in the first column, the counties failed to make returns.

TABLE Showing the Number of Persons between the Ages of 18 and 45 Enrolled by Assessors, September 10, 1862, the Number Exempted, and the Number Subject to Draft; together with the Number Returned in June, under a law of the State.

*Of these 797 were exempted by the surgeon.

↑ Most of these are Indians, whom hitherto the War Department has refused to muster into service.

Exempted by surgeon, 419.

There was no surgeon in this county, and these figures show the total enrollment.

In the same report of the Adjutant General is found the following statement regarding the population of counties and the number of persons subject to draft on the basis of the census of 1860:

"The total population of the counties above enumerated at the census of 1860 was 715,595. The proportion of persons residing therein who are subject to draft is as 1 to 857-1000. The counties which have made no returns are Alcona, Alpena, Chippewa, Delta, Gratiot, Grand Traverse, Houghton (included with Keweenaw in 1860), Iosco, Leelanaw, Marquette, Manitou, Manistee, Muskegon, Osceola, Oceana, Ontonagon, Presque Isle, and Schoolcraft, and their aggregate population in 1860 was 35,415. The same ratio which rules in the counties from which returns have been recieved would produce in the counties last mentioned a military strength of 4,507, making the aggregate of persons yet remaining in the State between the ages of 18 and 45, and subject to draft for military purposes, 95,578, less the number of volunteers who have enlisted since September 10, 1862."

The obstacles in the way of a draft being so numerous, the War Department with a view to enable states to raise their quotas of volunteer enlistments, left the time for drafting to the discretion of the Governors.

Three companies of men, nearly full, had been offered from the Upper Peninsula in September, while there was reason to believe that in the same section three more could be raised. With this in view the 27th, with the assent of the government, was ordered organized, with headquarters at Port Huron, in command of Lieut. Colonel Thomas S. Sprague.

Authority had also been given by the War Department to Colonel Kellogg to raise the 7th Cavalry, and upon being confirmed by the governor, the regiment was ordered organized, with rendezvous at Grand Rapids.

At this time Colonel John Stockton of Mount Clemens and Captain James I. David of Trenton, then a quartermaster U. S. A., had received authority from the War Department, which was sanctioned by the governor, to raise each a cavalry regiment, when the 8th and 9th were thereupon ordered organized, the former having its rendezvous at Mount Clemens and the latter at Coldwater.

Following this, with a view to getting up an Irish regiment, the 28th was authorized, under the direction of Colonel Edward Doyle of Detroit, with rendezvous at Ypsilanti.

On application to the War Department, permission was given to recruit a regiment of sharp-shooters, when Captain C. V. DeLand of the 9th Infantry was placed in charge of its organization, with rendezvous at Kalamazoo.

The government having specially authorized advanced bounty, these officers entered upon vigorous efforts to fill up their ranks.

An impression at this time prevailed among the citizens of the State, that a shorter term of enlistment would conduce to a more rapid recruitment of men, were the opportunity offered. Consequently the Governor, willing to afford every reasonable encouragement to the disposition so generally man

ifested by the people to raise the required number of men without drafting, and also fully mindful of his obligations to the government, His Excellency, on the 29th of November, issued the following proclamation, which clearly presents the requirements of the government at that time, and the mode by which they are to be met:

To the People of the State of Michigan:

It is essential to the maintenance of the honor of the State, by meeting its obligations to the Federal Government, that the quota of the troops required of Michigan under the call for 600,000 men should be speedily furnished. I have felt great confidence that this might be done without resort to a draft, but it will be impossible at the rate enlistments have been making for the last month and more. The number required of each town and ward in the State has been assigned upon the principle of giving credit for all recruits furnished since the first of July last. Substantial justice in this respect has been done toward all. To be exact was impossible, and to go back of the first of July was impracticable, both because the order of the Secretary of War did not authorize it, and because there was no reliable record by which such credit could be made up with any chance of fairness.

It is, therefore, indispensable that the several towns and wards of cities should furnish the number of recruits assigned to them, and I take this occasion to assure the people that unless the men are furnished by voluntary enlistment they will be taken by the draft.

For the purpose of still giving abundant opportunity to fill the quota of the State by voluntary enlistmeut, recruiting will be continued as follows:

1st. Recruits will be received for new regiments now forming in the State, and for all the old regiments now in the field, until and including the 29th day of December next. These must be enlisted for the term of three years or during the war.

2d. From the 1st to the 16th day of December next volunteer recruits will be received for the old regiments only, to serve for nine months, in pursuance of the act of Congress.

3d. On the 30th day of December next the draft will commence and proceed until the requisite number is obtained in all those towns and wards which shall then be found delinquent.

Less than four thousand men are now required to fill the entire quota of the State, and I earnestly hope that they will be found to come forward cheerfully and enlist for the war, as all our troops thus far have done. And I desire this not so much because there is anything discreditable in a draft, as because it is exceedingly desirable that all the troops from Michigan should stand on the same footing in the army. Let the people of Michigan make one more loyal and vigorous effort, and the entire number required can be obtained, and the high reputation of the State for patriotism and promptness will be maintained. AUSTIN BLAIR.

Dated Jackson, November 29, 1862.

The following from the Adjutant General's reports, shows the aggregate number of troops enlisted and mustered up to December 23, 1862:

"Total, including recruits, sent to the field before July 1st, 1862, 24, 281; 'Lancers' and 'Hughes' Horse Guards,' regularly mustered into the service,

but disbanded without leaving the State, 987; three regiments of cavalry, ten of infantry, and one battery, sent since July 1st, 13,739; recruits (including six for nine months) received from July 1st to December 23d, 2,162; estimated strength of three regiments of cavalry, two of infantry, one of sharp-shooters, and two batteries, organizing in the State, 4,400. Total, 45, 569.

"This does not include volunteers from this State who have gone into the regiments of other States, to a number known to exceed 1,400.

"A considerable number of recruits had also been enlisted in the State during the summer and fall for the regular army, probably three or four hundred at least.

"These troops, with the exception of a few of the earlier regiments that were mustered into service by the late Lieut. Col. E. Backus, Capt. J. C. Robinson, and Capt. H. R. Mizner, U. S. army, were mustered under the direction of the late Gen. J. R. Smith, U. S. army, a citizen and resident of Michigan, who was United States military commander in the State, and chief mustering officer until the adoption of the provost marshal's system, when he was detailed as commissary of musters, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. The energetic and faithful services rendered by him aided much in facilitating the speedy despatch of troops to the front."

The report closes with the following extract, which undoubtedly expressed the estimation in which the Michigan troops were held, and did not by any means over estimate their services, and certainly was correct as to the loyalty and patriotism of the people at that period of the war:

"At the time of making the last annual report from this department, covering only a small portion of the force now in the service from this State, it was thought that the regiments then reported would be all that would be required to suppress the rebellion; but another year is nearly closed, and regiment after regiment has been raised, until a large army has gone from the State, and still the rebellion goes on. Notwithstanding all this, the loyalty and patriotism of the people are not exhausted. The same determination seems to exist as at the commencement of the war, that it must be put down, and the nation redeemed at any sacrifice. The promptness and cheerfulness with which every call made by the General Government upon the State has been responded to bespeaks the intelligent loyal patriotism of its people. The people of Michigan are intelligently loyal on the subject of the war, and her soldiery are intelligently brave and patriotic, true to the honor of their State and their Nation, preferring on all occasions death before dishonoring either.

"The troops from the State of Michigan have gained a prominent position. in the armies of the Nation. They have done their duty faithfully and fearlessly, and borne the brunt of many well-fought fields. Some of them have proved an anomaly in modern warfare. Suddenly called from the common avocations of life, and within a very few days of the time of leaving their native State, they have been pitted against the veteran troops of the enemy of their country in superior numbers, and completely routed them. It has been the fortune of Bome of them voluntarily and successfully to lead the forlorn hope,' regardless of opposing numbers. Their scars and thinned ranks now attest their services to their country. The honor of their Nation and their State has been safe in their hards, and both will cherish and reward them. Monuments to

the memory of the brave dead are now erected in the hearts of the people, and National monuments to their memory will be erected by a grateful country."

The military operations in the field in 1862 had not been much in favor of the Union cause. In December the Union army in Virginia had failed in its attack on Fredericksburg, the Western army had been successful at Stone River in the same month, both important engagements, and in effect nearly balancing. Yet the people of the country seemed not to be discouraged nor to falter in their determination to press on to ultimate success by putting down the nefarious rebellion. In good old Michigan, loyalty and patriotism seemed in the ascendant.

Governor Blair, in his message to the legislature, in January, 1863, in speaking to the Michigan soldiers in the field, alludes to their services as follows:

"I commend the Michigan troops to your active sympathy and support. By their heroic endurance of the hardships of war, and by their splendid bravery in battle, they have crowned the state with glory. Their battle cry is Michigan! Remember Michigan!' and Michigan must remember them. We have already a long list of immortal heroes dead in battle. I hope you will, in some appropriate way, place upon the enduring records of the State your appreciation of the valor and patriotic devotion of these brave men. Let us hand down their names to posterity upon an illuminated page, that they may be revered as examples for all time to come. They belong to history now. We must take care that it is rightly written. Your hearty thanks are also due to the gallant men who still uphold the flag of our country in the field, and have lately borne it on to victory over bloody ground. Let us send them warm words of cheer from home. May God give them other and greater victories, and bring them back speedily in peace and triumph. Then, indeed, shall heaven's arches ring with glad shouts of welcome."

In February following, the legislature expressed in a joint resolution the sentiments of Michigan people on the war question:

"That we are unalterably opposed to any terms of compromise and accommodation with the rebels, while under arms and acting in hostility to the government of the Union, and on this we express but one sentiment-unconditional sumbmission and obedience to the laws and constitution of the Union."

In March, the following preamble and resolutions were passed by the legislature in compliment to the Michigan soldiers in the field:

"WHEREAS, the citizen soldiers of Michigan have responded cheerfully to their country's call, have never hesitated or faltered when duty prompted or danger threatened, and by their indomitable fortitude under the fatigues and privations of war, their heroic bravery and brilliant achievements upon the battle-field, have crowned themselves with glory, and given to Michigan imperishable renown; therefore,

"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That, tendering to them the thanks of the state for their valuable services, we also assure them that while Michigan thus holds them forth as