Executive Office Iowa
July 8 1862.
His Excellency the President
By reason of my absence from home the telegraphic dispatch
of Gov. Morgan, requesting my signature to the letter of the governors of the
loyal States to you, requesting you to call for three hundred thousand more
volunteers, did not reach me until the 5th inst., too late to permit me to attach
my name to the letter. But for this my name would have accompanied those of the
governors of the other States, and I now assure you that the State of Iowa in
the future as in the past, will be prompt and ready to do her duty to the
country in the time of sore trial. Our harvest is just upon us, and we have now
scarcely men enough to save our crops, but if need be our women can help
harvest them. I am anxiously awaiting the requisition of the Secretary of War.
I will be in Washington next week, when I hope to have the pleasure of seeing
you.
Very respectfully
Your obt svt
SAMUEL. J. KIRKWOOD.
SOURCES: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and
Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 215-6; This letter may
be found among The Abraham Lincoln
Papers at the Library of Congress.
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