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son, and duplicates will be sent. Faithfully your Excellency's friend, and the servant of the committee and the cause, E. R. Hoar. With the following letter from Judge Hoar to the Governor, we close this part of the correspondence relating to matters connected with the three months troops, and the disposition of the War Department neither to accept more troops, purchase transports, nor to take charge of commissary stores which had been forwarded by Massachusetts:— Washington, May 8, 1861. To His Excellency Governor Andrew. dear Sir,—The Cambridge arrived this morning, having been detained between two and three days at Fort Monroe to bring on some heavy guns and shells. Dr. Howe arrived this morning, having been detained on the way by illness. Mr. Cameron told me this morning, that his department would not purchase, or agree to employ, the steamers; and, in answer to my urgent representations about the six Massachusetts regiments for the war, said that none could b