DAVENPORT, August 12,
1862 – 8.45 p.m.
(Received 9.30 p.m.)
Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Will Colonel Byam's Temperance Regiment and Colonel
O'Connor's Irish regiment be allowed longer than the 15th instant to fill up? I
will have ten regiments instead of five under your requisition of July 8 by
telegraph. They will be full this week. You must accept them as volunteers.
They enlisted to escape the disgrace of a draft, as they conceive it, and it
will not do to refuse them. Answer immediately.
SAML. J. KIRKWOOD.
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. 362; Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and
Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 216-7;
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