The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-09-17
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
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Affairs in indianapolis.
INDIANAPoL1s. Sept, l1.-Indiana has now
in the field twenty-seven thousand soldiers,
and has enough in camps in various parts
of the State to amount to thirty seven
thousand, in infantry, cavalry and artillery;
yet the enlistment continues as rapidly al
most as ever.
. Governor Morton is going to raise addi-
tional regiments enough to make the
amount from Indiana up to the even fifty
thousand men-a proportional humber of
which will be cavalry and artillery.
The movements of regiments are delayed
in consequence of scarcity of regulation
uniforms, the goods of which they are made
are very scarce here. s.rz4s
The Department at Washington found it
impossible to furnish arms as fast as we
raised the men, and Gov. Morton was forced
to purchase them in order that his troops
might get into service sooner.
The Indiana troops have now about 5000
Enfield rifles, and there are Il, 900 more yet
to arrive, all newly purchased by the State,
but Gov. Morton turned them over to the
General Government, who will reimburse
the State. This enables our soldiers to get
good guns, and get sooner into active ser
vice.
The Quartermaster and Commissary De-
partment is now under the control of the
General Government, and are continually
employed in receiving and discharging
goods no sleepy heads or fred tape are
allowed here Regiments are put into a
condition to move-officers are required
to remain in their camps with their
men, and after night orders are given, to
pack up and get aboard the train. The
Colonel don't know where he is going until
he is ready to leave. The next morning
the people wake up, the regiment is gone
and all is quiet.
Gen. Fremont is loud in his praises of In
diana; he says that Indiana is the most
prompt of any State in the Union, all that
he has to do is to telegraph to indianapolis,
and in twenty. four hours the men, or whal
| he wants, are in St Louis.
The United States officers who have ex-
amined the accounts of most of the States,
say that Indiana has managed her affairs
| more economically, and with more credit to
herself than any State in the Union. -s
Secretary Chase is reported to have said
to one of our public men, Sir, Indiana
standsfair in Washington your State off,
/ GERS have the confidence of the Administra-
ton, and |, with the President, have conf
dence In their management of financial af-
fairs, and their ability to get through this
| struggle with credit to themselves and hon
OF to the National Government. va
There is one feature of Gov. Mortons'
policy that recommends itself to all that is
his continual care of his troops. He does
/ not dismiss them to the seat of war and
then abandon them, but be has been send
ing an agent every few weeks to visit every
/ regiment from this State wherever they are
situated, and see that the men are well
clothed and provided for. This plan was
so heartily approved of by General Fremont
that I understand he telegraphed to the
| other Governors who have troops under
| him to appoint commissioners also.
1t is rumored here that Governor Morton
has been rendered commission as l4ajor
| General, and that ne is about raising an ar
my of ten thousand men, which he intends
putting in the field ia superb manner, al
to be armed with Enfield rifles, and equip
ped in the best possible style.
fho President, IL Is said, has offered to
! place on his staff two or three able officers
of the regular army. THIS army is to join
the Fremont expedition. If this is done
you will hear q good report from them -
! Governor Morton is just the man for this
position. A very prominent military man
who has always been a Democrat, and who
was, believe, an elect0r on the Democra
ticket remarked in my hearing that there
was no man in Indiana more competent fol-
the post than Governor Morton.
MEDCUS