The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-08-30
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR.

The quota ofthis State of the three hun
dred thousand volunteers called for by the
President on the 9Th of July last is TO-
$40.
The quota of this State Of the three hun
dred thousand militia required to be draft.
ed by order Of the President, 5th of August
instant, is ten thousand FIVE hundred and
seventy.
The number of men required to fill up
the ranks of our regiments in the field, as
reported to me on the 5th Of August is
8,OO5.
The qsota of the first call is over full by
the prompt and patriotic response of our
people within the last few weeks.
I am satisfied that from fifteen to twen-
ty thousand men are now organised into
companies awaing organization into new
regiments, and am urging upon the war
Department tho acceptance of the whole
number, and that our State be credited
with the excess upon the second call for
men. But the War Department refuses
as yet to give us such credit, until the
number Of men required to fill the old reg
imeuts (eight thousand and five) shall have
been furnished.
These men for the old regiments are
sorely need, and the cause of the country
is better served by filling old regiments
than by receiving new ones.
The officers and men of the old regi-
ments have gained knowledge of their
duties by experience in the field, and new
recruits joining these regiments have the
benefit of this knowledge possessed by their
officers and comrades An old regiment
filled up with new recruits, is more effec-
tive at the end of two weeks, than new
regiment at the end of two months.
In order then to get the credit due our
State for the excess furnished over the
first call, and in order to give our country
this most effective and sorely needed help
we must fill up the old regiments. We
can do this by volunteering until the first
of September. Ifnot done by that time
the deficiency will be supplied by special
draft in addition to the draft under the I'd
call.
Iappeal then to every man for aid. Let
everything else be laid aside until this
needed work is done. Let the young man
whose brothers and friends are in our old
regiments take their places by their sides
ANY person desiring to enter an old regi-
ment can select the regiment and company
he prefers, and thus 60 with his acquain-
tances and friends.
So deeply am impressed with the inn
perative necessity Of filling the old regi-
ments that will at an extra session Of the
General Assembly to convene on the Sd
day Of September recommend to that body
the payment Of State bounty Of such sum
rs may be deemed advisable TO all persons
who shall before the first day of September
enlist in any one of the old regiments Of
this State.
I also earnestly advise all companies
now incomplete, and which will not cer>
tainly be completed by the 2Sd instant, to
abandon their attempt at organization as
companies and enlist for old regiments.
Iappend the dispatches showing the
present situation of the various calls on
this State, and an abstract from the Gen
eral Order from the Adjntant Genera! at
Washington in regard to recruits for the
old regiments. S. j. J.KIRKWOOD,
Gov. of Iowa.
- (By telegraph from Washington, July
Z. 1862
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