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Excerpt from Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Michigan: For the Years 1883-1884 Notwithstanding nearly twenty years have passed since the war ended. Numerous applications of soldiers and of the War Department for official papers are still made, and a large correspondence is still continued and increasing in regard to business connected wrtn unsettled claims of soldiers of the war, requiring certificates as evidence of service, in place of lost dis charges. On which to base applications for back pay, pensions, bounties, and homestead claims, including answers to the numerous letters of inquiry as to names and present address of surgeons and other oflicers of the late war, and' also including the work incident to the issue of the book Michigan in the War, all combined make the labor of the oflice heavy and continuous, and rendering it too much for one clerk, thereby, from necessity, abandoning the work of arranging and re-copying the record books of the regiments of the war, and delaying other necessary business. I therefore recommend and earnestly ask that authority be given for the employment of another clerk in this department, as an absolute necessity. I desire to say, in this connection, that a register of ofiicers having been published in Michigan in the War, I earnestly request that authority be asked from the coming Legislature directing the Adjutant General to compile for publication a volume containing a register of the enlisted men, and quote from Michigan in the War on that subject. This compilation of history and register of officers should not be accepted as completing the war record of Michigan, as it must occur to every one that in justice to those who served in the ranks, a register containing their names should also be made and printed in a volume, and it is hoped that at no distant day this will be accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.