Litchfield enquirer., 1862-07-17
GENERAL HEAn.QuARTERs STATE OF Con-
NEcTEouT, ADJUTANT-G OFFICE, )
s.-. HARTFORD, July 18th, 1862.
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To tho Geleetmes Of the several Tovas: tsg4qa q
/ n GExTLnNEN,-Ths necessities of the
government are such that the immediate and
most energetic efforts Of every citizen Of this
Estate, and especially Of those who hold Offices
of responsibility and influence, are urgently de-
manded to enable the Government to place at
the disposal Of the President, the full quota of
men from this State at once. ,,.s,s .,g..s.. lie
The crisis in our national affairs caused by
the late battles and the present position Of the
| army before Richmond, is Of such importance
that more than ordinary means to increase our
force and relieve our army may De necessary.
| ehe authors and aiders Of this shamefully
toaussless and ooutrageously wicked rebellion,
must not bspermitted from their stronghold and
socalled capital, longer to defy the government
and insult loyal people. Prompt and general
action by the people at large, will at once vim
dictate the authority of our government and has
ten the day Of honorable peace. With twenty
millions Of energetic people, doubly strong in
the consciousness of right, and resources such
as no other nation of equal population can exhib-
it, we should not suffer the progress Of our arms
to be delayed by want of men. sd
advise you to call meetings at once in your
town, to set forth to the people the e1igeneies
of the present hour, to pledge your private
means to assist volunteers and their families,
and especially to appoint town committee
whose duty it shall be to raise money, encourage
MI stn nd ITO IF on,
ergetic habits and patriotic impulses to act as
recruiting officers. Such men, if possible, should
be selected as will be competent to receive COM
missions, and any selections your committee
may thus make will be confirmed by the COM
mauder-in- chief, after they shall have enlisted
prompt and energetic, who do not desire COM
missions, but weo are anxious to aid the country
as recruiting officers, let such be chosen.
The names of those selected for recruiting Of
fcers should be sent to this office, when orders
with the necessary blanks and INSTRUCTIONS will
be at once forwarded.
The quota which your population requires
cannot be exactly determined, but will not be
the militia Of last August. The apportionment
by the last enrolment was necessarily imper-
feet, but new apportionment will be soon made
under the new militia law. Do not wait for that
but see that you do your duty, at least, and if
you overstep the number to which you are enti-.
tied, you will have additional Cause for rejoie-
ing when by your efforts the supremacy of the
government and the liberties of the country are
established on firm basis.
have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH D. WILLIAMS, Adjt-Gen
According to the above, our proportion in
Litch6eld will be about SO men. Shall we raise
them?
- Lieut. Jackson, of Battery L, First Conn.
Artillery, writes to the Chief of Police at Hart
ford that in the backward movement" he was
sent with several men of Capt Hazards Bat
terry back to spike the gun-the only one lost
which they successfully accomplished. During
the fight Of Wednesday the teamsters Of two of
the 8 inch guns ran away with the horses, and
when word came to fall back, Gen. Barry said
they must spike the guns and leave them; but
the boys said, mo, never. while We have hands
to draw them" and Company L, Capt. Perkins,
got rope and hitched it to one, while Compa-
ny K, Capt. Ager, followed with the other, and
thus they drew them for over three miles, until
they found teams to take their places. .
- Brigadier Gen. Tyler, Of this State, has
been assigned the command of the I'd division of
the Army of the Mississippi, (late Gen. Pope's, }
and is now in camp near Jacinto, Miss, a few
miles below Corinth.
= We observe, among the Est Of names Of the
Connections soldiers in the hospital at Fortress
Monroe, the names of Corporal G. B. Fuller, Co.
E, 9Th Regiment, from this town. This must be
q mistake, IS late letter received from him by
his friends here, dated at Newport News, three
days since, make no mention of any illness.
= H. H. Riggs, of Torringford, Co. c, same
regiment, is also reported sick. . -...,,..r
TIN TwELFTH, REcmEsr. = Company A, of the
18th Gonns is stationed at Jefferson City, near
New Orleans. Capt. George N. Lewis is &C.
ting Mayor, and Lieut.. WIN. S. Buckley is city
tclerk and recorder. The boys have high times
driving on the shell road, but complain of the
awfully hot weather. has. r#a
T. First CONNECTICUT ARrnLERY-The unde-
signed wishes to obtain the address Of, the rela-
tives and friends of officers and priyates in the
First Connecticut Artillery who were taken by
the rebels at Coal Harbor. for the purpose of
perfecting an arrangement which it is hoped will
| for the benefit of the prisoners. Address,
! g,s.5e i;j,a .s.oa. II. 7. SPERRY, Hartford.
y The n r. Tribune announces the death of Col
William Dutton. of the 9sth New York Volun-
teers, which took place in Nav York on the 4th
of July He was brave and efficient officer,
but his exposure in the swamps of the Peninsula
brought on typhoid fever, which caused his
death. He was . native of WATERFOWL, in this
county, SON of the late Daniel 2 button. and
10 nephew Of Ex-Governor Ddtton.
From NEW ORLEAEs.-Sergeants Norval Dou-
glass, of Captain Dickinson's company. 18th c..
", arrived in New Haven from New Orleans on
Saturday, having received o furlough of sixty
/ days. Sergeant Douglass came North by the
steamer Mcclellan, in company with Col. Dem
ing, bearer of dispatches to the government
When he left the regiment was encamped few
miles above the city, near Carrolton, were quite
pleasantly situated with little sickness and lint