Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-05


Senator Wilson made a statement in the
Senate, last Saturday, of the strength of the
volunteer force in service on the 2lst of May
last, compiled from rolls and returns in the
office Of the udjutant general. The rolls
show in the aggregate IS cavalry regiments,
1885 men, which the senator thinks is an
over estimate Of seven or eight thousand
men; II artillery regiments, I9,477 men;
6O4 infantry regiments, 50S,745 men; l6S
| companies of batteries and others. II 1896
men; making total of 6I7 .654 men. OF
these it was stated an immense number were
at home on leave, or sick in the hospitals
amounting to not less than seventy-fye or one
hundred thousand men. The government has
now called for fifty additional regiments
To facilitate recruiting, and afford induce
ments for enlisting, a bill is now pending
in the senate authorizing the president
to accept volunteers to the number IN
the aggregate Of seven hundred thousand
men, and offering each accepted recruit
months pay in advance. Senator Wilson
stated that this provision was put in the bill at
the urgent and pressing request of the pres-
dent and secretary of war, on the ground that
it was desirable the ranks of the service should
be filled up more rapidly than they were now
doing. He further stated that it was not the
present design of the government to fill up
the regiments already in the field and keep
them full The following correspondence in
regard to recruiting in this state will be read
with general interest:
BosToN, May 81 1862
To Capt. Joh,f4lI. Goodiue, IT, S. A. MASTERING and
LiSbUrSiag Oticer this Post
Captain-l have received kilograms of which the
| following are copies, viz
WASHINGTON. May 80, 1852
Gorrnor AHdrc,c Boston:
| Senator Wilson will introduce a resolution to-day
which no doubt viii pass, authorizing one months
pay in advance to three years men, upon the regi-
ment being mustered into service. Upon cabinet
| consultations to-day, there having been conflicting
'ews in respect to three months men, the president
has made an order which will be telegraphed Won
by the aGJuian general.
have received none under the of the adiu-
sntgeneral, but have received since the follow.
ing telegram from the secretary of war, viz:
WASHINGTON, MAY 80, 1862.
GorerHor J. 4 Aadrctc:
Order respecting mastering and pay of recent EN-.
llStments: All regiments OF militia or of three
months Volunteers who have offered their services
under the recent call of the war department and
as
| be ab G to report for order nj st. Louis, Column
bus, Ohio, at Washington CITY. by the lOlh of
june Will bc mustered into the service of the Uni
ted States Tor tiatr months from that date the nav
| oi each NoluHtccI or militiaman commencing from
the day of his en- i,ment. Under the call for three
| wears Volunteers. hty thousand men will be ac-
ccpted as raised and reported b. the respective state
| governors.
| by order OF the president
EDWiS VI. STANTON, Secrt:ary Of Var
I nder existing laws no volunteers. properly so
called can be raised for shorter term than six
months and militia liable to be held until two
months at the meeting Of the next session Of CON
gresS and perhaps longer by special of congress
But undeISanI. iii, last Telegram to pledge tho
president to discharge ali militia men who may be
mustered for hee mouths. at the end of that time
provided that theE had already offered their services
us regiments under the order OF 25th inst and the
other conditions ui this Telegram. Please muster in
all MaSsnchuseitS militia regiments who come with
IN MS terms john a. ANDREW,
Governor OF Massachusetts,.
The adjutant general has issued Il later or
der, already published, giving official an
nouncement that no three months men will be
called for in this commonwealth under any
orders now received from the war department.
GEN. CAsEY's DWIsIoN.-A gentleman con-
nected with the sanitary commission at White |
House, Va, says in letter dated Thursday.
May % Zone of our physicians, who went
up to the advance, yesterday, by cars, has
just come back. He reports deplorabe con-
dition Of sickness CaSey's DiciSi0n hariag
lost tti'fy-aine hundred men $4,000 on the
march, dropped out of the regiments on the
way" Gen Casey's friends are confident
that his disaster will be satisfactorily explain
ed.