washington, April 14, 1861.
Wm. H. Acker, Adjutant General Minnesota,
Sir: In the
excitement which the attack and reduction of Fort Sumter occasioned here and
elsewhere in the East, the states all around made a tender of generous support
to the government, and aware that the patriotic people of Minnesota would be
offended if there were any delay on my part in doing the same on their behalf,
I at once hastened to the War Office and addressed the foregoing communication
to General Cameron. The call now issued to the states for men, does not, as you
will doubtless have learned by telegraph ere this, include Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Iowa or Michigan; but our contingent should be in some degree of
readiness, for the call may shortly be extended to us. You had better,
therefore, be on the qui vive, and I will write you again to-morrow.
If troops are asked of us, they will probably rendezvous at
St. Paul, and the expense of uniforming and of transportation will be borne by
the government here.
Very truly,
Alexander ramsey.
SOURCE: Minnesota. Board of Commissioners on Publication of
History of Minnesota in Civil and Indian Wars, Minnesota in the Civil
and Indian Wars, 1861-1865, Volume 2, p. 1
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