WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 18, 1862.

His Excellency CHARLES S. OLDEN,

Governor of New Jersey, Trenton:

Required to fill up your regiments in the field August 13, 1862, 3,964 men.

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

ALBANY, N. Y., August 18, 1862.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Commander-in-Chief:

Governor Morgan will issued 10,000 State arms, but they have no accouterments. Can the Government supply them now? We want clothing and equipage also. I fear there will be great delay on this account.

Q. A. GILLMORE,

Brigadier-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., August 18, 1862.

Brigadier General Q. A. GILLMORE,

Albany, N. Y.:

The Assistant Secretary of War has given directions in regard to clothing and equipments. The troops should be sent here with all possible dispatch.

H. W. HALLECK,

General-in-Chief.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 18, 1862.

His Excellency E. D. MORGAN,

Governor of New York, Albany:

Required to fill up your regiments in the field August 13, 1862, 52,854 men.

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 18, 1862.

Governor MORGAN,

Albany:

If it will save time and bring the troops quicker you can attach temporarily surplus companies to a full regiment, to be organized and consolidated when time and the safety of the country admits. I cannot tell you how precious time is now. Every man is needed at once. If the troops cannot be paid the bounty and advance pay as quick as they can be sent off, do not detain them, but start them and telegraph me, and they shall be paid here on arrival.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.