Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-11-28
I. A, A New Drafting raj Or, Order. E.
ron MEN NEEDED TO FILL UP
vg IOWA's QUOTA.
Enlistments to Continue till Jan. LIT.
MUSCATlNE The BANNER COUNTY!
Her Quota Five Haudred and Five
More than Eulll ssa W
Enlistmssnts to Continue till Jan. lst,

! by the following 0mclel documents, ire
ceived by private favor from Iowa City, Sat
urday. evening it will be seen that our mill
tary. authorities are required TO raise 7,071
men by the first of january. Some Of the
counties viii doubtless raise their quotas by
enlistments. Drafting, however, will GER
tainly take place in some parts of the State.
Dubuque, it win be seen, is over 100 behind
on her quota, and our neighboring county,
Scott, 438. st l. e; aas..ioaa =. %
We are proud of Muscatine. She is far
ahead of any other county in the excess Of
her volunteers. Noble little Washington
is also beyond her quota. Only one county has
furnished more troops than Muscatine, and
that is Linn. Buthere are the documents
ExEcurIvE OFFICE, STATE OF Iowa,
Iowa CIrY, Nov. 10th, 1862.
To Draft Commissioner, r,-County, Iowa: "a
SR-Enclosed you will find tabular state
ment, showing the number Of men required
in your county, to fill up the old regiments,
based upon its actual quota under the Feder-
al calls, and which would govern if draft
were ordered to-day. 4
have postponed action in the matter for
the longest possible time-anxious not to re-
sort to draft, or anything looking thereto.
now, as last appeal, propose to your coun-
ty, to furnish volunteers by lst of January,
1868, for the old regiments to extent of its de-
linquency. If you fail to do this, shall be
subjoined letter to the Secretary OF VAR
ho 1aI -
pay and bounty. nos .a s-e gsGt !.
have now exhausted all means in my
power to avert conscrption from the State,
and the matter now rests with your own peo-
pie. ul G.s351o sra 10 h
Please assign to each township in your
county its proper quota, and distribute state
ment sent herewith to promiaent and infuen-
tial men in same, and urge upon all immedi-
ate and energetic action. As men are raised,
they will report at once to recruiting officers
if one in your county Passes with instruc-
tons will be sent you from Adjutant Generals
Office. .-....o ....
Special attention is called to following ex-
tracts from letter of Adjutant General of the
Army, to me, of date Sept. 26, 1862: Gre
cruits for old regiments of volunteers for three
years or the war, will be discharged at the ex-
piration of the time for which the regiment
was originally enlisted
mo order has yet been made for draft to
fill the old regiments, but when it shall be
made your suggestions will receive careful
consideration" SAMUEL j. KIRKwooD,
z EXECUTIVE OFFICE, STATE OF Iowa.
Iowa CRY, Nov. 10th, 1862.
HON. E. N. STANTON, SECRETARY OF war:
Sri have distributed among the respec-
tive counties Of the State, their several quotas
necessary to fill up the old regiments, and
have given them until 1st January, 1863, to
supply same by voluntary enlistment. Ifthis
be not done by that time, I shall confidently
expect positive and immediate instruction
from the General Government in regard to my
course of action, either an immediate draft, or
an entire reliance on voluntary enlistment
Our old regiments need the men at once, and
to prevent disorganization, supply of men
must be speedily furnished, and SHALL, if not
forthcoming by LIST January, 1868, be raised
by draft If you SO order. ~ N
lt Your obedient servant,
re.a SAMUEL j. KIRKwooD.