WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., October 9, 1862.

Governor BRADFORD,

Annapolis, Md.:

General McKinly [Kenly] has been ordered to place a regiment of infantry under your orders, and directions given to assign you three companies of the Purnell Legion.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

SAINT PAUL, MINN., October 9, 1862-2 p. m.

(Received 10.45 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

I have consulted with General Pope, and he says that for the present no troops can be sent from here.

ALEX. RAMSEY,

Governor.

MADISON, WIS., October 9, 1862-11.55 a. m.

(Received 2.30 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Your dispatch received. We can have four regiments infantry ready for the service indicated within two weeks, except as to arms, which I understand have been ordered here at request of Governor Salomon.

JAS. T. LEWIS,

Acting Governor.

MADISON, WIS.,

October 9, 1862.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON:

Please reply favorably to dispatch of 3rd relative to raising two companies. * * *

J. T. LEWIS,

Acting Governor.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, October 10, 1862.

HENRY FAIRMAN,

Stockholm, Sweden:

SIR: The Secretary of War directs me to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 13th of September,* representing that there is a great desire existing in Sweden for emigration to this country and enlistment in the Army of the United States, and proposing to assist this inclination on their part, provided the Government will defray the expenses of their passage and make the bounty payable to you immediately on the arrival and enlistment of the emigrants in New York City.

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*Omitted.

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