Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, May 1, 1862

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, D.C., May 1, 1862.
Major-General HALLECK,
Pittsburg Landing:

The order stopping recruiting was for the purpose of compelling returns from the respective Governors. They have now been received. It is the design of the Department to keep the force up to its present standard. You may therefore ca11 upon the Governors of the respective States in your command for recruits to fill up the regiments now in the field. A general order authorizing such call in your department will be made to-day.*

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
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* See next, ante.

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. 29

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