WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 31, 1862.

General HILLHOUSE,

Alabany, N. Y.:

Your telegram received, and I am glad of the promise of ten regiments during the week. They are much needed, for the exigency is pressing.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, September 1, 1862.

Major-General GRANT,

Corinth, Miss:

Your are authorized to enlist in Tennessee into old regiments.

H. W. HALLECK,

General-in-Chief.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., September 1, 1862.

Brigadier General W. SCOTT KETCHUP,

Springfield, Ill.:

Make requisition for such ammunition as you need upon Major Callender, Saint Louis Arsenal; Lieutenant Edson, Louisville depot of ordnance stores, or Captain Sturm, of ordnance depot, Indianapolis, as may be most convenient. Be particular to specify the different calibers of the muskets for which you want ammunition and the number of rounds caliber. The scabbards will be forwarded immediately.

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

[SEPTEMBER 1, 1862.-For Butler to Stanton, referring to enlistment of volunteers (white and colored) at New Orleans, see Series I, Vol. XV, p. 559.]

BOSTON, September 1, 1862-1.55 p. m.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

In obedience to your telegram, received 5 o"clock Saturday p. m., eleven surgeons started immediately. Thirty more left Massachusetts yesterday, all regularly detailed by our surgeon- general, under your order, and all surgeons of high character and ability; also nine carloads hospital stores left here last night.

JOHN A. ANDREW,

Governor.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., September 1, 1862.

Governor ANDREW, Boston:

Thanks for your humane provision of surgeons. As the battle field remains in possession of the enemy, only a portion of the wounded can be provided for, so that you need not send any more.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.