Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1865-01-11

may deprive them of such benefits, unless it is my
am, General, very respectfully,
A. G. CURTIN
Major General WINFIELD S. HANCOCK.
HEApoUARTERs FIRST Corps
wAsHIsaToS. D. c., Dec. 81, 1864.
TO HIS Ereeeney Hon A. g. CuETIN Governor OF fe'''
sIR:-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of your communication of the 2oth inst, and have re-
ferred the same to the War Department thank you
for your kind expression of personal good will and
regret that there should be any occasion for hesitation
on your part lend your official influence, Cover
nor 70 the raising of the corps as proposed by the
War Department
1t 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 l may say,
however that l have no knowledge of the organize
ton other than what have derived from the orders
cember 5th.
I cannot see how volunteers for this corps from
your State lose any of the advantages attaching TO
those for other organizations
They are credited to the localities where they or
their families are domicied, and count on the quota
of your State.
It should be borne in mind that this is an effort to
get men into the service who not subject TO draft
have the honor to remain, very respectfully, your
WINFIELD s. HANCOCK,
Major General U. s. Volunteers, commanding First
Corps.
The only act OF Congress for raising volunteers that
am aware Of requires that the field and line ocers
shall be commissioned by the Governors of the sever
81 States The men in this corps are not to be formed
INTO organizations OF the respective oates, anu II 10
proposed that its officers shall be appointed by the
general government. / know of no act Of Congress
or of Assembly under which men raised will be en-
titled to pensions their families to benefits from the
United States State government In addition will
observe that without any feeling of jealousy am still
not ready TO participate veg transferring the
United States illegally the right disappointment vested
IN the State and which the State authorities exer-
else with more discrimination by of having
greater familiarity with the merits of the citizens Of
their State than the United States authorities
possibly have. will transmit any further comnuni
cation that may receive on tins subject 1t viii be
perceived by reference TO the correspondence, that
have offered to raise in the provided by law,
two or three regiments of veterans for Hancocks
Corps My desire is to assist the Government IN every
legal mode in raising men, and especially to facilitate
an ethcer-a native Pennsylyanan-so distinguished
as General Hancock in his efforts to organize
corps.
shall throw obstacles in his way the present
occasion, but cannot certainly be expected to invite
violation of law in carrying out plan which sacrif
ces the rights of the State under existing laws, and
would leave the men unprotected by them, far as
concerns future provision for their comfort and that
of their families.
will further observe that it appears by the report
OF the Adjutan General, herewith transmitted, that
the State under the system established by law has
put into the military service of the United States
since the commencement of the war, the follow
ing number of men, viz: