Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-01-11
VOL. l1.---N0. 10.

congress 1Or your Cti lo- VI Noui oCs
would consult YOU in the selection osS officers
and only commission where you approved.
| cannot understand the importance of my
asking that persons be sent TO PENNSYLVANIA
to induce veterans to go to the District of
Columbia to enlist. | certainly will do moth
ing to embarrass the plan proposed.
We have benefits, by general and special
legislation in Pennsylvania. which attach to
the volunteer and his family. While will
do nothing to deter the veterans of the State
from entering your corps, | hesitate TO con
meet myself with a mode of enlistment which
may deprive them of such benefits, unless 1t
Is my duty under the law
| am, General, very respectfully, your O.
bedlent servant n G. CURTIN.
Major General Winfield 5. Hancock.
HEAD'oRs FIRST CORPS.
WASHINGTON ID. c., Dec 81. 1864.
To His Ercelency Hon. a. O.. GTtin, GoU-
eTnor Of Psunsglrqnia.
SIR: | have the honor 10 acknowledge
the receipt of yonr communication of the
10Th inst. and have referred the same To
the War Department | Thank sou for
your kind expression Of personal good
will, and regret that there should he any
hesitation on your part TO lend vour offl-
cial Influence, as Governor, TO the raising
of tie corps as proposed by the War De-
partment.
1t is not within my province, perhaps,
TO discuss the plan of organization. as -
am acting under the direct orders of the
War Department, and my own views,
therefore, are of no practical moment |
may say, however, that have no knowl-
edge Of the organization other than what
| have derived from the orders and cir
cuars OF which mailed you official cop
les December 5lh.
/ cannot see how volunteers for this
corps from your State lose any Of the adj
vantages attaching o those for other or
CARNATIONS.
They are credited to the localities
where they. or ihe families are domicii-
ed, and count on the quota OF your
State.
1t should be borne in mind that this is
an effort to get men into serv ice WHO are
not subject 10 draft.
l have the honor TO remain, very re-
specttuly, your obedient servant,
WINFIELD S. HANCOCK,
Major-General u. ). Volunteers, COM
mandng First Cops.
The only act OF Congress for raising
volunteers that / am of requires
that the field and line officers shall lie
commissioned by the Governors o! the
several States. The men In this corps are
not to be formed in to organizations of the
respective States, and it is proposed that
It's officers shall be appointed by the Gen
eral Government. ! know OF no net of Con-
gress or Of Assembly under which men so
raisM will be entitled 10 pensions or
THEN families to benefits from the UNI
ted States or State Government. la addi-
ton, will observe that without any feel
ing Of jealousy, / am stil not ready to
participate actively in transferring 10 the
United States illegally the right OF az
pointment vested in the State, and which
the State authorities can exercise with
more discrimination by reason OF having
a greater familiarity with the merits of
the citizens Of their own State, than the
United States authorities can possibly
have. will transmit any further COM
muncation that | may receive on this
subject. 1t will be perceived by refer
ence 10 the correspondence, that have
offered to raise, in the manner provided
by law, two or three regiments of veter-
ans for Hancocl's Corps. Ny desire is
to assist the Government in every legal
mode in raising men, and especially to
facilitate an otfcer-a native Pennsylya-
nian--so distin guished as General Han
cock. in his Ell; RS to organize new corps.
! shall throw no obstacles in his way
on the present occasion, but ! cannot, GER
laws in carrying out pian which sacri-
fees the rights of the State under existing
laws. and would leave the men unprotected
by them. so far as concerns future provis-
ion for their comfort and that of tneir
families.
| will furt her observe that it appears by
the report Of the AdjutaDt General here
with transmitted that the State, under
the system established by law, has put in
to the military service of the United States
since the commencement of the war, the
following number of men, viz:
Troops sem into the service during 1864.
Organization for three years
term, 1857
Organizations for one hundred
days term, 1875
Organizations for one year
term, 1904
Volunteer recruits 26.567
Drafted men and substitutes, 1851
Recruits for regular army 2976
Re-enHstn.sJts 9t Pennsylvania Fois4ateerS.
Infantry, 1882
Cavalry, 1884
Artillery. 799
Accredited to other States $50
-lf,o7o
91,704
Troops sent into tie ss1-vice Of the United States
since the commencement Of the rebellion. IN
cttding the ninety days militia IN the depart
ntents of tie NonongaheLa and .,SuSgeiehGna,
IN 1868:
During the year 1861, lS0,594
Do do 1852, 7l,100
Do do 1868. 1905
Do do 1864. 7s,s2S
Re-enlistment of Pennsylvania volun-
teers, 1876
3S6,444