forty days. If recruiting progresses well, shall next attempt to raise a few independent batteries of artillery, first conferring further with you about it. If batteries are raised could you detail an experienced non-commissioned officer to each for temporary service as drill-master?

F. HOLBROOK.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, May 26,1 862.

His Excellency the GOVERNOR OF VERMONT,

Montpelier, Vt.:

Infantry is required more than artillery. No more than two batteries of artillery will be wanted from Vermont.

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

MADISON, WIS., May 26, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

We have no militia organized. We have full regiment now guarding rebel prisoners here. We could organize in a few days a guard temporarily enlisted for the purpose, so as to relieve the regiment and send it to Washington. If you approve, state for how long we shall enlist the guard. We can place the guard under control of Major Smith, U. S. recruiting superintendent here.

E. SALOMON.

MADISON, WIS., May 26, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

If the rebel prisoners here can be sent to Chicago to be guarded, we can start our Nineteenth Regiment in three days.

E. SALOMON,

Governor.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, May 26,1 862.

E. SALOMON,

Governor of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.:

No change in the rebel prisoners can be made just now. This is a matter for the Commissary-General of Prisoners, who is at Detroit.

By order of the Secretary of War:

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

MILWAUKEE, WIS., May 26, 1862.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL:

There are four good Wisconsin regiments idle in Kansas-the Ninth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry, and Third Cavalry. The Twelfth and Thirteenth may have been ordered to Corinth, but

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