The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-01-16

supplies was, necessarily, under the cir
cumstances, hurried operation, and as
complaints were made in regard to them.
and frauds were alleged to have been per-
petrated, | appointed board of commits
sioners to investigate the whole subject
A copy of their report with the evidence
taken by them has been already laid be-
fore the public. 1t is the intention of the
Auditor General to open the accounts OF
such parties as appear by the testimony TO
have been overpaid, and this course has
already been taken al two of those cases.
On the expiration Of TIE term Of the
three months men, in July last, some
eight or ten thousand discharged Penn
svlvania volunteers were thrown into Har
risburg without notice and detained here,
waiting to be paid, for an average time OF
ten days. Their tents, camp equipage
and cooking utensils had been taken from
them at Williamsport. Md, and they ar
rived here destitute Of all means of shell
| ter and Of preparing their food. The
Commissaiy of the United States furnish
ed uncooked rations, and under the cir
cumstances of emergency deemed 1t
necessary to make arrangements for aiding
in the cooking and baking of the rations,
and also for furnishing meals to such Of
the regiments as arrived during the night,
or under circumstances requiring instant
! relief. The expenses attending these op-
erations amounted, so far as ascertained,
/ to S744 20, and l recommend that the Leg
! islaturc make az appropriation to pay
them 1t ought to be stated that these
! expenses would have been much larger, but
/ l. Il, nd Of ho
! citizens, and especially the ladies Of Har-
risburg their free-handed hospitality and
! generous aid to our wearied and hungry
soldiers, deserve remembrance and graft
tude.
At the special session Of the Legislature
which commenced on the 30th OF April
last, recommended the organization Of a
reserve corps, to be armed, equipped,
clothed, subsisted and paid by the State,
and drilled in camps Of instruction, in an
ticipation of the exigencies Of the country,
and by the act of the 10th of May last,
such corps was directed TO be raised,
and loan of S3,000,0eo was authorized
TO defray the expenses of that and other
military preparations. Men more than
| sufficient in number to form some ten
regiments Of the Reserve Corps had pre-
vious to the 10Th Of May been accepted
| by me In pursuance of a call on me (atteT-
wards resciuded,) for twenty-five regi-
ments, and were then already assembled
and subject to nay control. Most of these
men volunteered for the Reserve Corps,
and were Immediately organized. The
remaining regiments were rapidly recruit
ed and the corps was thus completed, and
Geo. A. MCall, Of Chester county, was
commissioned as Major General, and as
igned to the command OF all the forces
raised or to be raised under the provisions
of the last mentioned act. The regiments
composing the Reserve Corps were in
structed in four camps in different parts
of the State, until they were taken into
the service of the United States Two of
these regiments, under the commands of
Colonel Charles j. Biddle and Seneca G..
Summons, and two companies OF artillery,
under the command Of Col. Chas. L.
Campbell, at the pressing instance OF the
War Department, were sent on the 22d of
June last to the relief of Col. W Wallace, at
Cumberland, and remained for about six
weeks there and IN Western Virginia, en-
; gagged in active operations.
Towards the close of July the whole
Corps was called for under requisition
and taken iu the service of the United
States Within four days after the dis
aster OF Bulls Run, eleven regiments o.
this fine body of men EARNED, drilled
clothed, equipped, and in all respects
ready for active servlce,) were IN Wash
inston The regiments and eompauie:
from Western Virginia aud the remaining
two regiments, making the whole number
of fifteen, soon joined them there, and
they are all now in service Ul.der the
command OF Gen. Call, who has beer
commissioned as a Brigadier General bN
the United States.
These fifteen regiments contain tfteer
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six men
and constitute division comprising thre,
, brigades, regiment of artillery and on,
| of cavalry. The whole expense OF raising
t clothing, equipping, subsisting and payin;
the Reserve Corps, (including the expens
of establishing and fitting the camp o
instruction, of recruiting, aud supplyin;
regimental flags, and the expenses of TIA
, campaign of the two regiments and com
) panies in Mary land and Western Virgins
! which were all betrayed by the State
has amounted to $3.50, ,444 81. This doe
!, not include the transportation on railroad
r as the separation OF that account woul
have been a work o. great labor, nor doe