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Doc. 200.-Gov. Andrew's proclamation.

Executive Department, Boston, Aug. 20, 1861.
To the Citizen-Soldiers of Massachusetts:--
Again, in a moment of public danger, your country calls you to the post where the heroic soldiers of April hastened with generous alacrity and sublime devotion.

Two regiments encamped at Lynnfield, two at Dedham, and one at Worcester, are yet incompletely recruited.

They will march immediately. Whether few or many, they will march,--armed, uniformed, and equipped,--on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of the present week.

The Seventeenth regiment needs two hundred men; the Eighteenth four hundred; the Nineteenth three hundred and fifty; the Twentieth five hundred; and the Twenty-first two hundred men, in order to fill their ranks to the maximum number allowed by law.

Citizen-Soldiers of Massachusetts! Duty, honor, the dearest sentiments of patriotic love and devotion, call for your brave hearts and unconquerable arms!

John A. Andrew, Governor and Commander-in-Chief,

Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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