The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 202
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., July 3, 1862.
Governor ANDREW,
Boston, Mass.:
Your telegram of yesterday received, and I thank you for your
assurance of co-operation.
EDWIN M. STANTON.
BOSTON, July 3, 1862-2.30 p. m.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President :
SIR: If you wish militia for three months, Massachusetts can fur-
nish several thousand within the period named by you.
Your obedient servant,
JOHN A. ANDREW,
Governor.
TRENTON, July 3, 1862.
Hon. A. LINCOLN,
President of the United States:
I received your dispatch. I will hurry forward every available
man in the shortest possible time. I have not yet received any infor-
mation as to our quota from the War Department, or any communi-
cation whatever. Please send requisition.
C. S. OLDEN,
Governor.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Trenton, N. J., July 3, 1862.
His Excellency Hion. ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
SIR: Since telegraphing you this morning I have further considered
your telegram. Your desire is to have men at an early day. That
end could be best attained by calling the volunteers for but six
months, and by paying each when enlisted, and before mustered in,
a month's pay. This to be in addition to the $25 bounty when
mustered in.
As to calling the men for but six months, the Government must
determine. It would render enlistments more easy, but has its dis-
advantages. If any of our regiments are for only six months, all
must be, as it would prevent our enlisting men for three years, and it
would also interfere with our supplying their places at the end of six
months. My own impression is (if not improper for me to express it)
that General McClellan might better be re-enforced by men in the
field, even if it could only be done by abandoning for the time some
points now held by our troops, and the States raise their troops for
the war. I simply state the fact that we can raise regiments more
readily for six months than for three years. The giving a month's
pay when enlisted and before mustered, that the volunteer may make
provision for his family when he leaves, I think quite important.
This State gives a bounty of $6 a month to each volunteer, but by our
law it can't be paid in advance. If the Secretary of War will au-
thorize this State to pay to each volunteer when enlisted a month's202
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2., book, 1899; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139264/m1/211/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.