The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-20

to the front. Col. Randall with five companies
Of the 18th Regiment made brilliant charge,and
re-took battery, which had been captured. On
the Sd Of July these three regiments, uader Gen.
Stannard, held the left center, aud won distn-
guished praise for the steadiness with which they
endured the terrific artillery attack of that day,
and the bravery with which they fanked and de-
stroyed the charging columns OF the enemy.
The regiments now IN service have been deple-
ted during the year, from the various casualties of
the service, an average of over copper cent. The
whole number of men remaining in the service is
1884, of whom 6l50 were on duty.
The result of the U. S. draft is as follows
Quota assessed Ais
Number drafted, 1911
Accepted, 2781
Entered service or furnished substitutes, 94S
Paid communication, 1888
The men raised by this draft have been sent to
the I'd, Sd and 4th regiments, excepting 164 On
duty at Brattleboro. The deficiency is 1884
men and these troops must be raised by sup
Elemental draft, or otherwise furnished by the
State.
The General Government has also called upon
! the State for two regiments of infantry and one
battery of light artillery, equal to 2,1S0 men,
called the veteran regiments. If these are raised,
there will be no further proceedings to supply
the deficiency under the draft which has already
been made. The Adjutant General says these
troops must be raised, if not by volunteering, then
by compulsion. Every consideration of Ssate
pride, urges the proper authorities, selectmen,
recruiting officers and patriotic citizens, to engage
zeaIousy in this work, that the State authorities
may not be under the humiliatng necessity of re-
porting to the. General Government that Vermont
cannot raise the troops Tor which requsition is
made.
The report aludes to, and highly praises, the
care which has been bestowed by the State au.
thorities upon the sick and wounded Vermont
soldiers in hospitals, and deservedly commends
the system and the efforts through which more
than one thousand Vermont soldiers scattered
through more than hundred general hospitals
have been sought out and brought to Brattleboro
and Burlington, where they could breathe the pure
air of their native St and be accessible to their
frends
The appendix to the report contains the Cen
eral Orders issued during the year, the official re-
port 6y the commanding officers of the part YER
mont troops have taken in the various engage
ments in which they have participated, the reports
Of Commissioner Frank F. Hol6rook, Surgeons
Z. E. Phelps, and S. W. Thayer, Robert R. Cor.
son, State Military Agent at Philadelphia, Col.
Frank E. Howe, State Military Agent at New
York, David Willis, Agent respecting the Nation
al Cemetery at Gettysburg, and the Board OIL
State Medical Examiners, together with the cor
respondence between Gov. Holbrook and Score
tary Stanton, which we have already published.
We cannot conclude this notice of the Adiutan
Generals report without saying, that the laborl
of Gen. Washburn's Office the past year, have
been varied, responsible and arduous. For prop
er appreciation of their amount one has but to re-
fer to his report in detail. They have been per
formed both with reference to the present and th,
'u'et0, oHuo"'oipS " secuie Vhe oesl present Fe
suits; and, by the preservation of full and accu
rate records, to furnish whatever may be necessa
ny for future reference or use either for the bene
fit OF the soldier, or for the ultimate purpose o
history. The General Assembly did not do bet
ter thing during the session than when they unan
imously reelected Gen. Washburn to the offic
of Adjutant General
From the Messenger.