WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., September 21, 1862.

Adjt. General ALLEN C. FULLER,

Springfield, Ill.:

The three-months" men may be immediately reorganized for three years or during the war, and shall receive the bounty and advance pay upon being mustered in.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, September 21, 1862.

Governor MORTON,

Indianapolis:

Instructions have been given for the purchase of horses for your ten batteries.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., September 21, 1862.

N. B. BAKER,

Adjutant-General of Iowa, Davenport:

To what place shall the arms for Iowa troops be sent? They are ready.

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, September 21, 1862-5.30 p. m.

(Received 8.30 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

On the 12th ultimo you authorized me to retain three-months" regiments, allowing bounty, &c. I could not succeed while they were in the field. They are now being mustered out. With authority to promise the usual bounty I think I can now reorganize them. What say you?

DAVID TOD.

DAVENPORT, September 22, 1862.

P. H. WATSON, Esq.,

Assistant Secretary of War:

Send arms and accouterments to this point.

N. B. BAKER.

LEAVENWORTH, September 22, 1862.

General C. P. BUCKINGHAM:

SIR: It is earnestly requested that Major Hunt may be ordered to pay the one month's advance to the three new regiments in this State without delay.

Respectfully,

J. H. LANE,

Commissioner of Recruiting.

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