DAVENPORT, IOWA, August 20, 1862.
Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
First. There are companies now full and that will be filled
by the 23d to fill eighteen to twenty regiments. Our whole State appears to be
volunteering. Second. The companies are now coming into rendezvous as rapidly
as I can furnish blankets for them. Could have them all in next week if I had
blankets and could build quarters fast enough. Have blankets for only five
regiments. Third. I don't want any further time than the 23d. All I want is to
put into regiments all the companies full on that day. If I don't get this
permission I will have to volunteer myself and leave the State.
SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD,
Governor.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III,
Volume 2 (Serial No. 123), p. 417; Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life
and Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 217;
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