The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 402
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
or evidence against the character, conduct, or fitness of the appointee,
and if there should be any such charges or evidence, a special report
of the same will be made to the President.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, D. C., August 18, 1862.
Brig. Gen. JAMES WADSWORTH,
Commanding Military District of Washington:
SIR: You are hereby authorized by the Secretary of War to raise
and organize one or more regiments of volunteer infantry, the same
to be recruited in the District of Columbia, and to serve for three
years, or during the war. The said volunteers will be placed on the
same footing as those raised in the respective States, so far as bounty
and allowances are concerned. Each regiment will be organized as
prescribed in the act of July 22, 1861, "to authorize the employment
of volunteers, &c." (except that no bands will be authorized).*
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
T. M. VINCENT,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
MEMPHIS, August 18, 1862.
(Via Columbus, Ky., 24th, 1 p. m. Received 9.10 p. m., 24th.)
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,
General-in- Chief :
Dispatch received. Will religiously carry out any line of policy as
to trade the proper authority dictates, and with absolute confidence
in its right, as soon as I feel that you are at the helm. I have now a
steamer, seized for exchanging salt for cotton without military or
customhouse permits. Salt is eminently contraband, because [of] its
use in curing meats, without which armies cannot be subsisted. If
vigorous war measures are contemplated, I think all commerce should
cease. To carry on trade with the interior all our soldiers must be
made customhouse spies, as all closed packages may and do contain
contraband. We find clothing, percussion-caps, and salt concealed in
every conceivable shape, and I doubt not that thousands of pistols
reach the interior in this way. All the people of the South are now
arming as partisan riders, daring not to be guerrillas.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major- General.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 18, 1862.
His Excellency WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM,
Governor of Connecticut, Hartford:
Required to fill up your regiments in the field August 13, 1862,
4,000 men.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier- General and Assistant Adjutant- General.
* Details of organization omitted.402
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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/m1/411/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.