six days will elapse. Meanwhile the wounded must suffer immensely. It was so at Donelson and Pittsburg. Indiana has at least twenty-four regiments before the enemy. I propose to send at once to each of them two additional assistant surgeons, and respectfully request authority from you to do so. I regard this as an absolute necessity. Please answer immediately.

O. P. MORTON,

Governor of Indiana.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, April 21, 1862.

His Excellency O. P. MORTON,

Governor, Indianapolis, Ind.:

You have authority to send to each of the Indiana regiments in the field in Tennessee two additional assistant surgeons, agreeably to your request.

By order of the Secretary of War:

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 45.
Washington, April 22, 1862.

Brigadier General George L. Hartsuff, assistant adjutant- general, U. S. Army, is assigned to special duty in the War Department from the 14th instant.

By order of the Secretary of War:

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., April 22, 1862.

CHARLES ELLET, Jr.,

Pittsburg:

Your dispatch received. Reply to your telegrams of Saturday and yesterday have been delayed to receive information from the Navy Department. Instructions will be sent to-morrow.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., April 23, 1862.

CHARLES ELLET, Jr.,

Pittsburg:

The purchase of the coal and barges and two tenders is approved and may be done immediately.* The compensation of crew and mode of manning is being considered by the Department. Brooks informs me the work on the Monarch is going on briskly.

EDWIN M. STANTON.

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*For reply, see Series I, Vol. X, Part II, p. 123.

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