408 Series III Volume II- Serial 123 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 18, 1862.
His Excellency WILLIAM SPRAGUE,
Governor of Rhode Island, Providence:
Required to fill up your regiments in the field August 18, 1862, 3,282 men.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 18, 1862.
His Excellency FREDERICK HOLBROCK,
Governor of Vermont, Brattleborough:
Required to fill up your regiments in the field August 13, 1862, 2,000 men.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 18, 1862.
His Excellency F. H. PEIRPOINT,
Governor of Virginia, Wheeling:
Required to fill up your regiments in the field August 13, 1862, 5,588 men.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 18, 1862.
His Excellency EDWARD SALOMON,
Governor of Wisconsin, Madison:
Required to fill up your regiments in the field August 13, 1862, 5,904 men.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Jr.,
Governor of Maine:
SIR: Please state, first, how many new regiments you have commenced under the President's last call for volunteers; second, how many of these are full; third, how many men are required to fill the balance, and how long will it required to raise them; fourth, how many regiments have gone to the field. Please answer by 12 to-morrow.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.
(Same to other Governors of loyal States.)
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