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tent inspector should be appointed here, to see that comdemned shoes are not sold again. Sept. 2.—Governor wrote to Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania,— I have read, with great interest and pleasure, the copy of your communication of the 21st ult. to the President of the United States, which you were kind enough to send me, and in which you have so thoroughly exposed the evils resulting from the interference of the War Department with the regular, legal mode of organizing regiments of voct. 29, 1861. To Mr. Michael Schmitt, teacher at Versback, near Wurzburg, Bavaria. My dear Sir,—The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, in which your son is a captain, formed part of a detachment of Federal troops, which, on the 21st inst., crossed the Potomac, some thirty miles above Washington, and had an engagement with the enemy. The latter, being far superior in numbers, and having a more favorable position, compelled our troops to retreat, after they had fought with a brav<
cond lieutenant in the Thirty-second Regiment, and died in the service, Jan. 18, 1863. Meanwhile, the recruiting was going on, and with success greater than was at first believed could be attained. The great desire of the Governor was to fill up our regiments in the field, rather than to recruit new ones. The generals in the army had written to him, urging the importance of this duty; among whom was Major-General McClellan, whose letter, dated July 15, was answered by the Governor on the 21st, in which he said he should zealously and studiously seek to promote the measures and methods touching the new enlistments which you have advised. They fully accorded with his own views, had been expressed in his general orders in regard to recruiting. It is much more difficult to induce men to go into old corps than to join new ones. For this there are general reasons, some specious, but all of them superficial. . . . You may depend upon it, I shall turn a deaf ear to every resigning
turned to Baton Rouge, and for some time had no active duty, except in doing guard duty to baggage-trains, and provost-guard duty in Baton Rouge. About the middle of May, it advanced with General Auer's division towards Port Hudson; and, on the 21st, it participated in the battle of Plains Store, and won General Auger's commendation, and especially distinguished itself by its steadiness under fire, and by its promptness in re-forming its lines when broken by the hasty retreat of another regimas undoubtedly it will, it makes no difference to you, whether they call themselves volunteers after being drafted, and it does make some to them. Not receiving any immediate reply to this, the Governor telegraphed again to Mr. Stanton, on the 21st, calling his attention to his previous telegram, and restating and reen-forcing his former telegram. I think, he said, such request reasonable and just, and respectfully ask the favor of a reply. We do not know whether an answer was recei