 Governor Austin Blair appointed Kalamazoo resident Frederick W. Curtenius as colonel.Curtenius, in turn, selected Thomas Scott Clark and Edward Savage Bacon as lieutenant colonel and major, respectively.On June 19 the regiment’s officers (commissioned and noncommissioned) assembled at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, for training under regular army officers—most notably Alpheus Starkey Williams—as part of Michigan’s Camp of Instruction.