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825 Series III Volume III- Serial 124 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports

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Additional exhibit of credits, State of Michigan, as reported to the Provost-Marshal-General by letter September 21, 1863.

Prior to May 26, 1863:

1 company 23rd Illinois Volunteers...................... 99

2 companies Merrils" Horse (Missouri).................. 164 Recruits:

February 8 to April 1, 1862................ 412

April 1, 1862, to May 26, 1863............. 2,608

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Total .................. 3,020

Previously credited................ 2,435

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Difference.............................................. 585

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848 143 recruits for nine months=three years........... 36

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Total 884

Subsequent to May 26, 1863;

9th Cavalry............................... 1,053

1st Sharpshooters......................... 874

11th Battery.............................. 150

12th Battery............................... 119

Companies M and L, Seventh Cavalry......... 173

Recruits(including Invalid Corps,from May

26 to August 28, 1863) 1,135

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3,504

Men mustered (as per daily reports from Augustus 29 to September

19, 1863)................................. 727

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4,231

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Total, three-years" standard................ 5,115

THOMAS M. VINCENT,

Assistant-Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

September 19, 1863.

WAR DEPT., PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, D. C., September 19, 1863.

His Excellency HORATIO SEYMOR,

Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y.:

SIR: I have the honor to inform you that orders have this day been sent to the board of Enrollment of the Fourteenth District of the State of New York directing that a draft be made on that district for 2,324 men of the first class. This will be substituted for the order sent on the 5th instant.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAS. B. FRY,

Provost-Marshal-General.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington, D. C., September 19, 1863.

Honorable ANDREW JOHNSON,

Military Governor of Tennessee:

You are hereby authorized to exercise such powers as may be necessary and proper to enable the loyal people of Tennessee to present such a republican form of State government as will entitle the State to the guarantee of the United States therefor, and to be protected


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