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Staunchly on the side of the Union, for whom they supplied vast numbers of troops, who were widely engaged in the operations.

But by the end of 1862, they began to feel they were a long way from the war, and Lincoln got reports that the North-West as a whole was close to dropping out.

A North-West politician John McClernand was given permission to recruit what amounted to a private army, which revived local morale, though its intrusion into Grant's territory set up serious rivalries among the senior commanders, including the General-in-Chief Halleck.

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