Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-01-14
VOL. 9.---NO. 90.

frementS were issued to Colonels Brown and
Glantz s reg iments on going into the service
50 pieces of artillery, issued TO First Pennsyl-
vania Artillery, Co lionel Charles I. Campbell,
commanding, going into the service; e2S
sabres, ,056 pistols and 52S sets of accoutrc-
ments, issued 10 organized cavalry companies.
Showing an aggregate of l09 pieces of artille-
ry 39, ,045 muskets and rifies 1,740 pistols;
l 1926 sabres 22, ,203 sets infantry accoutre-
ments; 52S sets cavalry accoutrements; and
/ 1903 1888 rounds of ammunition.
In addition to the above, the Following mill
tary property of the city of Philadelphia is
reported by the ssHome Guard of the City OF
Philadelphia to be in its possession, to wit:
6 20-pounder Parrot rifled guns 2 10 pounder
Prussian rif1ed guns; / lO-paunder English RI
| fed gun; II caissons for 20-pounder Parrot
rified guns caissons for 10 pounder Prus-
| sian rifed guns, with tools and stores T.
| FOUNDER rif1ed howitzer, Dahigreen; 12-poun-
der rifed howitzer, $50 lbs. Dahlgreen; field
carriages for ditto; small howitzer guns,
| II Founders, with carriages, tools and stores;
l u FOUNDER rifled howitzer, Dahlgreen;
! 12-pounder smooth bore, $50 lbs. Dshlgreen
field carriages for ditto; small l2-pounder
| howitzers, with carriages, tools and stores;
l95 saddles l27 saddles, with traces, breast
straps, &c; 6S saddles, incomplete; 1926
nuskets and rifles; 200 pistols and 124 hols-
tiers; ,997 rounds of shot and shell 672 ,SSi
rounds musket and rifle cartridges. -.-
The foregoing does not include the arms and
! equipements that have been issued to the sew
! eral regiments of Home Guard, and which are
! in their possession.
| For the details of military operations and of
/ statistics, l refer you to the Reports of the
/ Adjutant General, Quartermaster General,
! Commissary General, Surgeon General, and
| the Chief Of Transportation, which accompany
! this message. - ~ ---
In regard to the election of officers in the
| Reserve Corps and the recruitment of the
,sataf1 hat
regiments of volunteers, l propose to send
| special message in few days, as l desire to
| treat these subjects somewhat at large, and to
submit to the Legislature some documents re-
lating to them. E.e
BY the thirteenth section of the act of May
18th, 1861. was authorized to draw my war
rants on the treasury for sum not exceeding
twenty thousand dollars for compensation to
such persons as might be required to serve
the country in a military capacity. At the
date of my last annual message, had drawn
from the treasury eight thousand five hun
dred dollars, and had paid out up to the LIST OF
December, 1861, six thousand four hundred
dollars, when my account was settled. Since
that time have drawn two thousand dollars
from the treasury, part of which, with the bal
ance in my hands, has been expended in the
payment of members of my personal staff in
service when required assistance, and in pro-
curing information and to persons employed
when the State was threatened with invasion,
in Sept mber, 1862. aud during the raid In
October last.
An account of these expenditures will be
found on file in the office Of the Auditor Geu-
eral.
Under the act of Goth April, 1858, it is my
intention to take early measures for tie sale of
the powder magazine in city of Philadelphia.
The powder magazine at Harrisburg is not ju-
diciously located. A State powder magazine
ought. in my Judgment, to be erected on q
suitable site in the vicinity of this place, and
| recommend the att ention of the Legislature
TO the subject.
In September last two batteries of rif1ed
cannon were presected to the Commonwealth
hy committee of citizens of PhiladeldhIa,
through S.F Merrick, Esq, which are now
in the Arsinal in that city. 1 recommend that
provision he made for procuring carriages,
caissons and other equipments for them. The
liberal donors entitled the thanks of the
Commonwealth for their patriotic gift.
Under the joint resolutions of 2Sth of Feb
ruary, 1862, measures were promptly taken
Tor the relief of our sick and wounded men
in the field
The wounded at Winchester, Strasburg,
Front Royal, Williamsburg and Fair Oaks, and
those in the corps of Major General Banks
were duly attended on the field or in the vi
cinity by Surgeon General Smith and corps
of surgeons under his direction, and were
brought into this State. The same system
would have been continued, but in June last,
received a letter from the Surgeon General
of the United States, representing that il was
found inconvenient 10 the service, and must
create difficulties in the regular Identification
of the soldiers for pay and pensions.
| compliance with his views, was reluc-
family obliged to discontinue the system, but
have not ceased to urge the War Depart
Inent the propriety of sending our sick and
wounded men into the State, where they can
be nursed and cared for by their friends and
have to say that at length such an arrange
ment was made with the authorities at WASH
ington, which il was hoped would be effective,
but there has been such tardiness in putting
il into practical operation, that recoume end
the Legislature to invite the attention of the
War Department to the subject. Our suffer-
ing men have right TO the sympathy and aid
of their State, to be so rendered as not to in
jure the service. If the bringing chem home
to be attended could produce even inconveni-
ence to that, would not urge it. But it is
cruel to leave them to the care and II regret
to say it) frequently to the neglect, or worse,
OF strange officials, at points in the immedi-
ate vicinity of all the abundant comforts
which the soiicitude of their families and
friends would rejoice to provide for them.
In addition TO the expenses of attending
and bringing home our sick and wounded as
above stated, have expended less than $4,000
in the transportation of friends Of sick, killed,
or wounded volunteers, and other persons sent
by me for their care to the several battle
fields and hospitals, and in bringing home for
iptermep the bodies of those slain. The whole
expense incurred under the joint resolution
was five thousand one hundred and nineteen
Dollars and eighty three cents, the details OF
which will be found in the report of the Sur
geon General and-of the Chief of Transpor-
tation. 'nz7s
/ have uniformly when aDnIiei to allowed