WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, May 6, 1861.
It is desired preferably that all the regiments mustered into the
service of the Government from your State not already actually sent forward
should be mustered into service for three years or during the war. If any
person belonging to the regiments already mustered for three months, but not
yet actually sent forward, should be unwilling to serve for three years or
during the war, could not their places be filled by others who are willing so
to serve?
SIMON
CAMERON,
Secretary of War.
(Sent to the Governors of Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.)
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume
1 (Serial No. 122), p. 161
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