The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 457
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UNION AUTHORITIES.
here, who are prepared to pay, to muster and pay by companies boun-
ties and advance pay without regard to date, and revoke conflicting
orders. Answer immediately.
ALEX. RAMSEY.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 25, 1862.
Governor RAMSEY,
Saint Paul, Minn.:
What conflicting orders do you want revoked ? I am aware of none.
The Department will not muster and pay by companies, nor will the
time for advanced pay and bounties be extended. It has already
expired, except for recruits for old regiments.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
SAINT PAUL, August 25, 1862-2.30Sp. m.
(Received 7.50 p. m.)
Hon. E. M. STANTON:
SIR: Are the volunteers or special draft for old regiments a part of
our quota of 5,360 men ?
ALEX. RAMSEY,
Governor of Minnesota.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
Omaha, Nebr. Ter., August 25, 1862.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.:
SIR: I have been informed that recruiting officers are now on the
way here from the First Regiment Nebraska Volunteers, now in serv-
ice in Arkansas. Full 400 men are needed to fill up that regiment,
and quite a large number will be required to fill up the cavalry we
have in service. These recruits I shall endeavor to raise at the
earliest possible moment. I would here remark that a recruiting
officer called upon me yesterday with papers from General Lane ask-
ing me to assist in raising a regiment of three-years' men for his
brigade. I informed him that I thought it of more importance to
raise and send recruits to the old regiments than to raise them for
new ones, and that I must first fill up our old regiments, and then if
we had the men to spare I would assist in raising men for General
Lane's brigade. This recruiting officer thinks General Lane will not
be satisfied with this course; thinks that the general's order should
be filled first; but I feel confident you will approve of my course, for I
.know that a man sent to the old, faithful, and tried Nebraska First
will be worth more to the country than one mustered into a new regi-
ment here. Indeed, my own opinion is we have not the men to spare to
fill up our own old regiments and make a new one for him. If after
ours are filled it is possible to raise more men, as I have informed
General Lane, I would render him any assistance in my power. I
think that after raising the recruits alluded to for the old regiments
we should be permitted to raise a regiment, if it can be done, for,
say, nine or twelve months, to be kept for a defense of our own bor-
ders. They might perhaps with propriety be stationed at Fort Kearny,457
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