The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 235
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UNION AUTHORITIES.
of all aliens residing in the United States to submit to and obey the laws and
respect the authority of the Government. For any proceeding or conduct incon-
sistent with this obligation and subversive of that authority they may rightfully
be subjected to military restraints when this may be necessary. But they cannot be
required to take an oath of allegiance to this Government, because it conflicts with
the duty they owe to their own sovereigns. All such obligations heretofore taken
are thereibfore remitted and annulled. Military commanders will abstain from
imposing similar obligations in future, and will, in lieu thereof, adopt such other
restraints of the character indicated as they shall find necessary, convenient, and
effectual for the public safety. It is further directed that whenever any order shall
be made affecting the personal liberty of an alien, reports of the same, and of the
causes thereof, shall be made to the War Department for the consideration of the
Department of State.
By order of the Secretary of War:
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant- General.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., July 21, 1862.
Major-General BUELL
HaIntsvi le, Ala.:
You are authorized to organize and muster into service such num-
ber of Alabamians in companies and regiments as you may deem
essential for the service. You are also authorized to arrange with the
Governor of Pennsylvania for raising three companies of cavalry, as
requested in your telegram of the 18th, just received.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., July 21, 1862.
Capt. GEORGE G. LYON,
Aide-de- Camp :
SIR: You are authorized to assure the Governors of those States
furnishing troops expressly for the First Corps d'Armie, now com-
manded by Major-General Sigel, that when raised they will be at-
tached to that corps to the extent of three regiments from New York,
three regiments from Pennsylvania, one regiment from Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Two batteries
of artillery from New York, two from Pennsylvania, one from Ohio,
and one from Illinois.
By order of the Secretary of War:
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier- General and Assistant Adjutant- General.
NEW YORK AGENCY OF THE U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION,
498 Broadway, July 21, 1862.
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
SIR: Three hundred thousand raw recruits are about to be called
into the field. It is impossible for the U. S. Sanitary Commis-
sion to contemplate this momentous fact without a profound feeling
of its obligation to lend Government whatever aid and counsel its
peculiar experience may enable it to offer as to the safest and best235
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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/m1/244/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.