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Brough proposed to enlist the state Militia into Federal service for a period of 100 days to provide short-term troops that would serve as guards, laborers, and Rear Echelon soldiers to free more veteran units for Combat duty. This would increase the number of men in the Northern armies campaigning in the South and allowing the Union to achieve victory more quickly—hopefully in one hundred or fewer days. Brough expanded the idea and contacted the governors of Indiana , Illinois , Iowa , and Wisconsin to do likewise to raise 100,000 men to offer the Lincoln Administration. The governors of these five states submitted their suggestion to Secretary Of War Edwin Stanton , who placed the proposal before President Abraham Lincoln . Lincoln immediately approved the plan. The War Department accepted all of Ohio's recruits, and the men were ready for duty within sixteen days of enlistment. Although other states brought in a total of around 25,000 men, only Ohio came close to its goal, federalizing close to 36,000 militiamen. Even when the system later spread to other Northern states, a total of only about 81,000 men was raised for a 100-day period. These veterans became known as Hundred Days Men. Unfortunately for the North, these men failed to accomplish their primary objective—defeating the South within one hundred days. SOURCE
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