The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 392
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392 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
appoint new officers, for special and peculiar reasons ? I trust Lieut.
Charles L. Chandler, of First Massachusetts, whom I long since
requested, and commissioned in our Thirty-fourth, may be ordered
immediately to join that regiment at Washington; it left here to-day.
Give me him as favor, if no other.
JOHN A. ANDREW.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 15, 1862-6 p. nm.
Governor ANDREW,
Boston:
I am highly gratified by your dispatch just received. The Thirty-
third and Thirty-fourth Regiments shall go to Banks and Sigel as
they desire.
EDWIN M. STANTON.
SAINT LOUIs, Mo., August 15, 1862.
(Received 5 p. m.)
IHon. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Will you accept volunteers for nine-months' service in lieu of
drafted men ?
H. R. GAMBLE,
Governor of Missouri.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 15, 1862.
Governor GAMBLE,
Saint Louis:
The Secretary of War consents to your retaining in service the sur-
plus militia, at least for the present, that all preparations should be
made for the draft, and the question of postponement will be decided
hereafter.
H. W. HALLECK,
General-in- Chief.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 15, 1862.
His Excellency Governor BERRY,
Concord, N. H. :
Information has been received at this Department that the laws of
your State do not exempt physicians, surgeons, and clergymen from
draft. They will be exempt as in other States.
By order of the Secretary of War:
C. P. BUCKINGHAM.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 15, 1862.
Governor MORGAN,
Albany :
The rule of the Department is that regular officers will not be per-
mitted to accept volunteer commissions of less rank than a colonelcy.
H. W. HALLECK,
General-in- Chief.
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