By the authority, and for the service of the
Government of the
United States, I propose to
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organize in
Kentucky a regiment of cavalry, to serve three years or during the war, to consist of ten companies, each company to contain not less than eighty-four nor more than one hundred and four rank and file.
Volunteers owning good horses can have them appraised, mustered into the service, and paid for by the mustering officer.
The captains and lieutenants are to be elected by the companies respectively.
Captains of companies will report to me at the
Galt House, in
Louisville, as soon as practicable.
No company must be removed from its point of organization until ordered into camp.
Transportation to the point of rendezvous will be furnished.
None but active, vigorous men, and men of steady habits, will be received.
Capt. Richard W. Johnson, of the regular army, has been detailed to act as lieutenant-colonel.
I intend to make this regiment in all respects equal to the best drilled and disciplined corps in the regular army.
I know this call will be patriotically answered.
The soil of
Kentucky has been wantonly invaded.
We invite attention to the
Military Call we publish.
No word of ours can lend force to the simple but kindling appeal.
It will stir the hearts of the loyal youth of our commonwealth like the soaring notes of a bugle.
The magnitude and grandeur of the cause at stake, the exciting and peculiar solemnity of the present juncture in the mighty struggle, the sudden and unprovoked invasion of
Kentucky by the Confederate forces, and the capacity and courage, the glorious manhood, and the lofty and spotless honor of the leader who here summons his youthful compatriots to the field, conspire to invest the call with a resistless charm.
Young men of
Kentucky!
read the call, and answer it. Rally under the flag of your country for the protection of your State.--
Louisville Journal, Sept. 7. 
