The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2. Page: 478
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
allowed to receive volunteers for the old regiments up to the time
when I get ready to draft. Our people are ready and anxious to do
this, and we cannot draft before September 15. Please answer this
point favorably and definitely. I have now five regiments in camp,
which might leave for the field in a week if they had their necessary
equipments. They have no haversacks or canteens, and I have eight
more ready for camp, for which there are no stores whatever provided.
In this connection I ask attention to my letters to General Meigs and
repeated dispatches to the War Department for the appointment of
Mr. Vandyke as U. S. quartermaster here. The new man sent here
is unacquainted with the business, and unwilling to take the respon-
sibility to help us in this matter. We are doing all that we can and
ask the prompt co-operation of the Department.
E. SALOMON,
Governor of Wisconsin.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 28, 1862.
His Excellency RICHARD YATES,
Governor, Springfield, Ill.:
My telegram of August 8 was written under a misapprehension of
the Secretary's views. On the 9th I corrected it, but your inferences
from the latter are wrong. No orders have been given for a draft to
fill old regiments. It has been said that such an order would be given;
that is all. Leave that matter, then, entirely out of sight in your pres-
ent proceedings. If I were with you I could explain former telegrams,
but cannot in a telegram. Setting them all aside, your quota of militia
is 26,148, as stated heretofore. Your quota of 300,000 volunteers is
the same, making 52,296. Deduct from this all volunteers for three
years, enlisted and mustered from July 2 to September 1 for old and
new regiments, and the remainder is the number to be drafted. In
reply to your other telegram, it is not understood here how the want of
paymasters, money, and mustering officers can prevent the organiza-
tion of regiments, as the companies should be complete before their
duties begin and may at once be formed into regiments. To furnish
tents is simply impossible, but quartermasters will supply anything
that the country affords for shelter. Every nerve is strained to obtain
and furnish supplies, but your promptness in volunteering has out-
stripped all the estimates of the Department. The entire resources
of the country are being used without stint to meet the emergency.
Your anxiety about it cannot exceed that of this Department.
C. P. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier- General and Assistant Adjutant- General.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, D. C., August 28, 1862.
(Via Leavenworth.)
Governor ROBINSON,
Lawrence:
Volunteers for three years or during the war are the only ones
received. Volunteers for nine months are not required at present.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.478
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