Litchfield enquirer., 1865-05-11
land wounded to the hospital in New Haren

Land wounded to the hospital in New Haven i They have rendered valuable service whic
 could not have been secured as well by an bother agency. -i@7a # sH HOSPITALS AT NEW HAVEN.
 1 The desire of sick and wounded soldiers f
 be rear their families and their homes has bee
 painfully manifest in the earnest applicatio;
 which they have made to be transferred to tl
 U. s. Hospital at New Haven. It has, how l ever, been impossible 10 meet their wishes i for the want of room.
 During the last winter, number of highl respected and influential eitizens of the Stat
 memoralized the executive to enlarge the hos pital buildings. This has been done by tn
 erection, at a cost of ten thousand five hundre
 and ninety-seyen dollars anl twenty-five cent of five pavilioDs, capable of accommodatin five hundred soldiers. As no moneys hay been by law appropriated for the payment o
 the expense incurred, none have been draw
 from the public treasury, sud your honorabl
 body can now determine whether or not an ap preparation shall be made for that object
 Your decision upon this point should be based upon the. importance of the object attained and should be entirely independent of the fac that the expenditure has been made.
 '-' PENSIONS AND BACK PAX.
 Many discharged soldiers are entitled te bounty, pensions and back pay, and the wives oftsoldiers who are held as prisoners in rebe hands, are also, by orders of the war depart ment, entitled to draw portion of the soldiers pay during their imprisonment.
 lmportant evidence in support ot claims for such dues is to be obtained from the records of the Adjutant-G General of the State Tbai off cer mas been ordered to furnish copies from his records for that purpose to all persons who may make application for the same
 The Adiutant General has also been directed to transmit to the war department. whenever requested by parties in interest, such proof, together with any other which may be furnished him, accompanied by an application for the amount due, and if successful in the collection, he is ordered to pay the full amount received to the soldier or to his family without charge.
 .,.-.. E X s4r MILITIA.
 The laborious and responsible duties of the Adjutant General, Quartermaster General, and Paymaster General have been performed to the satisfaction of this department, and com mend the reports of those officers to your care ful examination.
 With an enrolment of forty-three thousand aud fifty persons of an age which renders them subject to military dutyt only one thousand four hundred and eehty-fve, are members of the active militia and available for immediate service. After the trial of another year we have new evidence that merely voluntary sys- lem is inadequate to secure a military force sufficient to meet the reasonable demands of the public at a season of disturbance and insub- w neither it is advisable to adopt more stringent measures to secure that object, you will be able to judge. .{s
 The Paymaster General has paid sixty two thousand nine hundred and seventy-6se orders, and has disbursed S35479l7 ,66. This sun includes the payment of bounties to volunteers, and to persons who have furnished substitutes, the expenses of the militia, those of recruting in rebel States, and office expenses, all lpf which appear in detail in his report heIegit hspresept- .,fetr rfo fruvv rnirsrru fuvo the regular army, and into the veteran reserve corps, are not en- titled by law to the S30 perannum, nor are their families entitled to the monthly pay which has been provided for volunteers in State organiza- tions, yet they feel that they have as strong claims to such payments as the persons who now receive them.
 Under the provisions of an act of Congress and of law passed by the General Assembly of this State to provide for the payment of a bounty to volunteers. and for other purposes, approved July 9th, 1864, the Executive appoint ed agents to proceed to several of the military Departments in the South. and recruit volun- teers from states in rebellion to be credited to the quota of this State. The agents were al. lowed compensation of Sl00 for the expense of obtaining each volunteer. al l~7sss
 The Paymaster-General was ordered to ap- point an assistant paymaster to proceed to each of the Departments referred to with funds to pay the State bounties at the time when the volunteers should be mustered into the service
 The obstacles in the way of obtaining the musters of men in Mississippi were So great that the agent appointed for that Department failed of securing volunteers, and under the law was not entitled to pay either for his time or his expenses. There is no doubt of his fidelity ol ability, and Q claim for remuneration may be regarded with favor. Other agents were sue cessful, and eleven hundred and forty. four vol unteers were obtained.
 The War Departments authorized persons la ble to draft to- procnre substitutes from states in rebellion, provided the substitutes should be sent to the Districts in which the principals were enrolled without expense to the govern ment. An agent was appointed from each county to procure substitutes. but not one o them was successful. All recruiting agents have been relieved from duty and discharged.
 Orders relating to this subject. as well as oth CTS issued by the Commarder-in Chief to regu late and facilitate volunteering for our armies will appear in the report of the Adjutant Gen eral.. .,lsz .sz- .-A.. 2@
 To aid the National Government iii suppress ing the formidable and extended rebellion against its rightful authority Connecticut hal furnished one regiment and one squadron 0 cavalry three batteries of artillery. twenty nin' regiments and four companies of infantry ant artillery, more than two thousand volunteer for the navy, and recruits to fill up the ofter deeimated ranks of the above organizations and fol the regular army in such numbers tha by the records of the Adjutant General it ap pears that on the 3lst of March last, the stat' had been credited by the War Department up on the quotas assigned under all calls of thu President for troops. with ffty-four thousand four hundred and sixty-eight men who have been mustered for total service of one hpnd red and thirty-two thousand seven hundred ant sixteen years. sea yss t. The Adjutant General reports 8 surplus o men furnished. by the State of six thousaDs and elghty-nine, for three years service, withou reference to our quota under the call of Decem Der last. That. quota has not yet been assign ed, but the Provost Marshal General reports surplus of one thousand two hundred anu elev en men, and three thousand five hundred ant sixty-four years of service standing to the credi of the State ogersthe number of men and year of service required on all calls hitherto made. Two thousand seven hundred and eighty-fiv, colored soldiers are included in -she nnmher a