20 Series III Volume II- Serial 123 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports
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was based upon the estimate that their number would not exceed 500,000. The number of volunteers in the service is believed to be nearly 700,000. By reason of this increased force the whole appropriation for the payment of volunteers will be exhausted by the 30th of this month, and provision should be made to meet the payments until the 30th of June. Upon the report of the Paymaster-General, I recommend that an appropriation of $30,000,000 be made for that purpose. An additional appropriation of $100,000 will also be required to carry into effect the act passed 25th of March, 1862, to secure pay, bounty, and pensions to officers and men actually employed in the Western Department or Department of the Missouri.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient-servant,
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
NORWICH, April 16, 1862.
Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Your order to report all troops shall have prompt attention.
W. A. BUCKINGHAM,
Governor of Connecticut.
FRANKFORT, KY., April 16, 1862.
Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Dispatch received. Governor absent. A complete list of all Kentucky forces in the field, together with all not mustered into service and all used as home guards, with necessary minutiae, will be promptly sent you. Your dispatch now before the Military Board.
NAT. GAITHER, JR.,
Secretary of State.
SAINT PAUL, April 16, 1862.
(Received 1.35 p. m. 17th.)
Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
The troops now in service of General Government from Minnesota are as follows: First Infantry, on Potomac, men, 859; Second Infantry, in Tennessee, men, 850; Third Infantry, in Tennessee, men, 910; Fourth Infantry, at Fort Snelling men, 958; Fifth Infantry, at Fort Snelling and frontier posts, 807; First Company Minnesota Sharpshooters, with Berdan, 81; Second Company Minnesota Sharpshooters, at Saint Paul, 103; First Company Light Cavalry, Tennessee, 83; Second Company Light Cavalry, Tennessee, 95; Third Company Light Cavalry, Tennessee, 84; First Battery of Artillery, Tennessee, 146; Second Battery of Artillery, at Fort Snelling, 144; recruits for First and Second Regiments, at Fort Snelling, 43. Total, 5,163. Full particulars by mail.
ALEX. RAMSEY,
Governor.
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