WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., July 4, 1862.

JOHN W. FINNELL,

Adjutant-General of Kentucky, Covington, Ky.:

The Government will receive all the infantry troops that you can raise in Kentucky and as fast as they can be raised.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., July 4, 1862.

Governor MORTON,

Indianapolis, Ind.:

Your telegram to the President has been received. Distribute the prisoners in the manner you propose and forward the three-months" troops rapidly as possible. Give us the fifteen regiments if you can do so, and at the earliest moment, raising them on any plan you deem most expedient.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

CLEVELAND, July 4, 1862.

His Excellency the PRESIDENT:

When I sent you my dispatch yesterday I had not see your call for 300,000 men. Indiana will furnish her full quota.

O. P. MORTON,

Governor of Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 4, 1862.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

The Fifteenth and Seventeenth Batteries Indiana Artillery, with 120 men each, will start to Baltimore to-morrow. They can fill up immediately if permitted to recruit from three-months" volunteers guarding rebels. Will your order the transfers to be made?

O. P. MORTON.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., July 4, 1862-9.20 p. m.

Governor MORTON,

Indianapolis:

You may fill up your batteries in the manner proposed in your telegram just received and send them on. This telegram may stand as an order for the transfer to be made.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

HARRISBURG, July 4, 1862.

(Received 9.10 p. m.)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

President:

Your dispatch received. Everything possible will be done in this State to meet the demands of the Government for additional troops