The strategy relied on greater. surveillance of both inmates and. visitors,increased frequency of. random urinalysis,more cell. searches and surprise raids, and increased use of drug-. sniffing dogs.
Although no actual battles were fought in Michigan, menâand womenâfrom the state served throughout the war in more than 50 Michigan regiments of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, as well as in regiments of other states.
The first major Civil War battle fought west of the Mississippi River was that of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, fought on August 9, 1861 between a Union Army of about 5,400 men , â¦led by Gen. Lyon and Gen. Sterling Price's Missouri State Guard of 11,600 men. Lyon was defeated and killed.