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Domestic News
August 27, 1862
The Daily Evansville Journal
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
What is this article about?
Washington authorizes Indiana Governor Morton to continue recruiting for six incomplete regiments until September 1, 1862, with bounty and pay, reducing the draft need to about 25,000 men. Col. Wilder departs with over 200 recruits for the 17th Indiana.
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Military Item.
We clip the following from the Indianapolis Journal of yesterday:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 1862.
Governor Morton:
Your State has responded so promptly and liberally to the call of the President for troops, that the Department is willing to afford you every facility for filling your quota. You are therefore authorized to continue recruiting for your six incomplete regiments till the 1st of September.—
Bounty and pay will be allowed.
By order of the Secretary of War,
C. P. BUCKINGHAM.
The regiments authorized by this order will raise the force from this State to such a figure that exclusive of the number necessary to fill the old regiments there will not be more than 3,000 to be drafted. Including in that number 22,000 men, there will not be more than 25,000 to be drafted, which will be almost 300 men to a county on an average. Volunteering for the old regiments goes on with bounty and advance pay till the 1st of September.
Col. Wilder of the 17th Indiana left last evening with over two hundred recruits for his regiment.—Ind. Journal.
We clip the following from the Indianapolis Journal of yesterday:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 1862.
Governor Morton:
Your State has responded so promptly and liberally to the call of the President for troops, that the Department is willing to afford you every facility for filling your quota. You are therefore authorized to continue recruiting for your six incomplete regiments till the 1st of September.—
Bounty and pay will be allowed.
By order of the Secretary of War,
C. P. BUCKINGHAM.
The regiments authorized by this order will raise the force from this State to such a figure that exclusive of the number necessary to fill the old regiments there will not be more than 3,000 to be drafted. Including in that number 22,000 men, there will not be more than 25,000 to be drafted, which will be almost 300 men to a county on an average. Volunteering for the old regiments goes on with bounty and advance pay till the 1st of September.
Col. Wilder of the 17th Indiana left last evening with over two hundred recruits for his regiment.—Ind. Journal.
What sub-type of article is it?
Military
What keywords are associated?
Indiana Recruiting
Civil War Troops
Governor Morton
Draft Reduction
What entities or persons were involved?
Governor Morton
C. P. Buckingham
Col. Wilder
Where did it happen?
Indiana
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Indiana
Event Date
Aug. 25, 1862
Key Persons
Governor Morton
C. P. Buckingham
Col. Wilder
Outcome
authorization reduces draft need to about 25,000 men; col. wilder leaves with over 200 recruits.
Event Details
Order from Secretary of War via C. P. Buckingham authorizes continued recruiting for Indiana's six incomplete regiments until September 1, 1862, with bounty and pay, due to prompt state response to presidential call.