regiment over our quota for three years. Will forward the battery and nine-months" men with little delay.

WM. A. BUCKINGHAM,

Governor.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., September 15, 1862.

Governor BUCKINGHAM,

Norwich, Conn.:

Accept my thanks for your telegram. Will you draft or give volunteers, and when? A battle and victory on our side between Hagestown and Harper's Ferry took place yesterday. Details not yet received.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

HARTFORD, CONN., September 15, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Most of our quota will be volunteers. A draft has been made to fill the deficiency.

WM. A. BUCKINGHAM,

Governor.

LEAVENWORTH, KANS., September 15, 1862-3 p. m.(Received 8 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

SIR: It is of vital importance that a battalion of mounted men be raised in this States for nine-month's service. Authority for this is asked, with the conditions that the men furnish their own horses and receive no bounty or advance pay.

Respectfully,

J. H. LANE,

Commissioner of Recruiting.

HEADQUARTERS ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Louisville, Ky., September 15, 1862-12.15 p .m. (Received 3 p.m .)

Hon. E. M. STANTON:

I thank you sincerely for your prompt reply to my telegram of Saturday.* I am compelled to trouble you again. Three battalions, composing parts of regiments-the Sixth, Tenth, and Eleventh Cavalry-being recruited, were full, having each the requisite number of men. They were not mustered because of the want of mustering officers. Meantime they were ordered into service by U. S. officers, and have each lost in killed and wounded and prisoners several men, reducing them below the standard. The mustering officer now fears to muster them in because of the deficiency. This is very cruel and unjust to both officers and men. In the present great peril to our

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*Relating to a supply of cavalry horses. Omitted as of no historical value.

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