To the Governors of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Michigan,
Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and the
President of the Military Board of Kentucky:
GENTLEMEN: Fully
concurring in the wisdom of the views expressed to me in so patriotic a manner
by you in the communication of the 28th day of June, I have decided to call
into the service an additional force of 300,000 men. I suggest and recommend
that the troops should be chiefly of infantry. The quota of your State would be
——. I trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this
unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion. An
order fixing the quotas of the respective States will be issued by the War
Department to-morrow.*
* Under this call
the quotas and credits were as follows, the first number indicating the quota
and the second the number of men furnished, Maine, 9,609; 6,644. New Hampshire,
5,053; 6,390. Vermont, 4,898; 4,369. Massachusetts, 19,080; 16,519. Rhode
Island, 2,712; 2,742. Connecticut, 7,145; 9,195. New York, 59,705; 78,904. New
Jersey, 10,478; 5,499. Pennsylvania, 45,321; 30,891. Delaware, 1,720; 2,508.
Maryland, 8,532; 3,586. Virginia (Western), 4,650; 4,925. District of Columbia,
890; 1,167. Ohio, 36,858; 58,325. Indiana, 21,250; 30,359. Illinois, 26,148;
58,689. Michigan, 11,686; 17,656. Wisconsin, 11,904; 14,472. Minnesota, 2,681;
4,626. Iowa, 10,570; 24,438. Missouri, 17,269; 28,324. Kentucky, 14,905; 6,463.
Kansas, 1,771; 2,936. The Territory of Nebraska also furnished 1,838. Making a
grand aggregate of 421,465 men furnished.
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. 187-8
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