The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 250
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
replace these troops you will please call out three independent com-
panies of infantry to garrison the said forts and for all other military
service within the State and the Territory of Dakota. The aforesaid
service will be special, and the troops in question will not be ordered
beyond the State or Territory named.
I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant- General.
WHEELING, July 24, 1862.
(Received 11.25 a. m.)
ADJUTANT-GENERAL U. S. ARMY :
Virginia's quota is put down at two regiments. My proclamation
is for 2,080 men. I am anxious to fill up old regiments. Will recruits
raised for old regiments be counted in the call? Our people are
ambitious to fill up the number called for.
F. H. PEIRPOINT.
GENERAL ORDERS, J WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 88. s Washington, July 25, 1862.
1. The recruiting detail for each volunteer regiment in the field will
hereafter consist of two commissioned officers from the regiment and
one non-commissioned officer or private from each company. Para-
graph III of General Orders, No. 105, of 1861, is amended accordingly.
Regimental commanders will at once select the additional men herein
authorized; and the order for detail will, as before, be given by the
commanders of departments or corps d'arm6e.
2. One commissioned officer of the detail will remain constantly at
the general recruiting depot to receive the recruits when sent from
the rendezvous and to exercise care and control over them after their
arrival until they are ordered to their regiments.
3. Recruits for regiments now in the field will be permitted to select
any company of the regiment they may prefer. Should the company
thus selected be full when they join it they will be allowed to select
another.
4. All men who desire, singly or by squads, to join any particular
regiment or company in the field are hereby authorized to present
themselves to any recruiting officer, when they will be enrolled and
forwarded at once to the general depot for the State or district, there
to be duly mustered and to receive the bounty allowed by law. In
such cases enlistment papers and descriptive lists will be forwarded
as directed in General Orders, No. 105, of 1861, from this office.
By order of the Secretary of War:
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant- General.
NORWICH, July 25, 1862.
(Received 11.45 a. m.)
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War :
Unless the Government accepts the light battery at once I shall
not be able to organize it. Reply.
WM. A. BUCKINGHAM,
Governor.250
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