WAR DEPARTMENT,

August 13, 1862.

Governor MORTON,

Indianapolis:

Three additional officers for mustering and disbursing have been sent to your State. Young lieutenants are better than old officers who are incapable of duty. The Department will furnish the best material it can, but without any hope of preventing complaints or avoiding dissatisfaction. Funds have been provided and sent to your State.

EDWIN M. STANTON.

INDIANAPOLIS, August 13, 1862.

(Received 5.35 p. m.)

General C. P. BUCKINGHAM:

We have now enrolled, as near as we can tell, 24,000 men under call of July 2. By Saturday morning will have several thousand more. I have no doubt I shall be able to make two regiments in all districts where only one was called for complete on the 15th instant.

O. P. MORTON,

Governor.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 13, 1862 - 7.54 p. m.

(Received 8.45 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Will you receive two cavalry regiments from Indiana? These added to old ones will give us five. The men are tendered for them.

O. P. MORTON,

Governor of Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 13, 1862.

(Received 9.30 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Your dispatch of this date is received. I regret that suggestions respectfully made in relation to the wants and conditions of the public service in Indiana should be regarded in the light of complaints and dissatisfaction. I give you credit for doing what you can for the cause, and claim the same for myself in my limited position. If the Government understands the condition of affairs in Indiana, of course information from me is not required.

O. P. MORTON,

Governor.

FRANKFORT, August 13, 1862 - 2 p. m.

(Received 3.45 p. m.)

Brigadier General C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Dispatch received. Fifty-five hundred cavalry and 1,500 infantry have been recruited as estimated. Cavalry now organizing, and when out of the way infantry will recruit faster. The Morgan raid lost us