WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, October 21, 1862.
Ordered, That
Major-General McClernand be, and he is, directed to proceed to the States of
Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, to organize the troops remaining in those States
and to be raised by volunteering or draft, and forward them with all dispatch
to Memphis, Cairo, or such other points as may hereafter be designated by the
general-in-chief, to the end that, when a sufficient force not required by the
operations of General Grant's command shall be raised, an expedition may be
organized under General McClernand's command against Vicksburg and to clear the
Mississippi River and open navigation to New Orleans.
The forces so
organized will remain subject to the designation of the general-in-chief, and
be employed according to such exigencies as the service in his judgment may
require.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
17, Part 2 (Serial No. 25), p. 282
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