 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.Upon completion of that initial training, the full regiment assembled at Kalamazoo in mid-August and was deployed out of state, bound for Baltimore, at the end of the month.Despite pronounced secessionist sentiment in Baltimore, the regiment’s stay there was mostly pleasant and uneventful.