WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 14, 1862.

Governor KIRKWOOD,

Iowa:

Your regiment will be accepted of filled up this week as volunteers, but the proceedings for draft should be vigorously pushed forward to fill up the old regiments, even if not otherwise required.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

FRANKFORT, KY., August 14, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

I have 2,000 men recruited in excess of twelve-months" cavalry. Will you receive them if organized and tendered? May I raise three-year infantry regiments in satisfaction of draft and credit the number raised to the counties raising them? I can raise in twenty days 5,000 three-years" infantry if credited on the draft. Kentucky is fully alive to her duty. Grant this if you can.

J. W. FINNELL,

Adjutant-General Kentucky Volunteers.

AUGUSTA, ME., August 14, 1862 - 10.15 a. m.

(Received 10.40 a. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Between 7,000 and 8,000 men enlisted by 12 noon August 13 under call July 2.

I. WASHBURN, JR.,

Governor of Maine.

AUGUSTA, ME., August 14, 1862 - 4 p. m.

(Received 6.15 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Shall I sent the five full regiments forward as fast as mustered and paid, and where to?

I. WASHBURN, JR.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, D. C., August 14, 1862.

GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS,

Boston, Mass.:

The nine-months" militia can be mustered now and as fast as presented.

By order:

T. M. VINCENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.