The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 283
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UNION AUTHORITIES.
(XIV. PUBLIC-No. 168.)
AN ACT to suspend temporarily the operation of an act entitled "An act to prevent and punish
fraud on the part of officers intrusted with making of contracts for the Government," approved
June two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. (See General Orders, No. 58.)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the operation of the act entitled "An act to prevent and
punish frauds on the part of officers intrusted with making of contracts for the Gov-
ernment," approved June two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be and the same is
hereby suspended until the first Monday of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
Approved July 17, 1862.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
BALTIMORE, July 29, 1862-12.45 p. m.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War :
Have arranged matters at Harrisburg. Will be in Washington this
evening.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 29, 1862.
P. H. WATSON, Esq.,
Assistant Secretary of War:
DEAR SIR : Having been detained here several hours by the train, I
have taken occasion to see and converse with Governor Morton and
others connected with the State government.
Recruiting for the regiments under the new call is progressing
quite satisfactorily. The Governor is raising fourteen regiments; of
these one or two are now almost ready (he thinks they will be filled
by next week), while all the others, except perhaps one, have now an
average of perhaps 500 men, and he thinks they will all be full in
three weeks or less. He has telegraphed to the several recruiting
stations for exact figures showing the progress of each, which he will
telegraph the President as soon as received.
The Governor has also sent a considerable number of volunteers,
raised as a special and temporary levy, to the help of General Boyle
to help operate against the Kentucky rebel guerrillas. The Governor
represents a very intense excitement as existing along the Indiana
border and in Kentucky on account of the late rebel raid across the
Ohio River.
He thinks and says earnestly that but for the presence of a large
Federal force Kentucky would now be in very imminent danger of
being turned against us.
Yours, truly,
JNO. G. NICOLAY.
DETROIT, MICH., July 29, 1862.
A. LINCOLN,
President of the United States:
Very little can be done in recruiting old regiments until the new
regiments are filled up, although every exertion is being made to do so.283
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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/m1/292/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.