325 Series III Volume II- Serial 123 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 8, 1862-2.30 p. m.
P. H. WATSON,
Assistant Secretary:
Reports from recruiting officers to-day show that enough men are returned to fill sixteen regiments. We have about 3,000 guns on hand, embracing five different kinds, and generally returned arms of inferior quality. I hope that sufficient arms will be forwarded at once.
O. P. MORTON,
Governor.
CLINTON, IOWA, August 8, 1862.
Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Have accepted Temperance Regiment tendered by E. C. Byam, to rendezvous by September 15. Will find requisition for arms and clothing by mail.
S. J. KIRKWOOD.
FRANKFORT, KY., August 8, 1862-1 p. m.
(Received 10.30 p. m.)
General C. P. BUCKINGHAM:
We will fill our quota, but do not desire to escape the draft. Let there be no intimation of a failure to draft in Kentucky until you hear from here. The draft was what was wanted here. The Legislature will indorse it next week. It will drive the scoundrels to fight, pay their money, or leave the State.
JNO. W. FINNELL,
Adjutant-General Kentucky Volunteers.
HEADQUARTERS KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Frankfort, August 8, 1862.General C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington:
MY DEAR GENERAL: Your dispatch of this date is received. I hope the draft in Kentucky will not be pretermitted. The mere announcement of its coming has had a most happy influence upon our rebel rascals. They no longer stand in the way of recruiting, but are becoming my most anxious, active, and useful aids. At all events, let there be no whisper that Kentucky will be excluded from the draft until I have had a chance to fill the quota of Kentucky. We are now doing admirably and are getting good men-men of position and property.
Yours, very truly,
JNO. W. FINNELL,
Adjutant-General Kentucky Volunteers.
AUGUSTA, ME., August 8, 1862-11 a. m.
(Received 12.25 p. m.)
Honorable E. M. STANTON:
Everything is being done with a view to get forward the troops with expedition. Orders to get back deserters I think will be changed and
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