American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-02-07

tary of War to the subject, by eommu
nication, dated the lst of August, 1861
and on the 25th Of September following
au order was issued requiring these indie
pendent regiments to report to TIE Gov.
ernor, aud placing them under his author
ity and control. Acting under this
order, many of the independent regi
ments were filed up, others consolidated
and seventy-throe regiment, with an ag-
gregate strength OF S9,04S men, were
promptly sent forward
During the year 1862, draft was or
dered by the General Goverumet, which
was executed under the State authori-
ties
OF the quota of the State, under the
call OF July I, 1862, forty. three regi-
ments of volunteers, aggregating 40,3S3
men, were put into service, and under
the draft ordered August 18th Of the same
year, fifteen regiments, containing an ag-
gregate force of $4,000 men, organized
and sent forward During the same pc
riod niue independent batteries of artil-
lery were organized in the State, with an
aggregate strength of 1858 officers and
men.
1t will be remembered, that the ardor
aud promptness of our people, under
such trying circumstances, in pressing
the troops forward, was such as to call
from the President especial thanks, and
to request me to express them to the peo.
pie of the State.
During the year 1903 forty-three
thousand, and iorty-six (43,046) men
were furnished for The service, principally
to gil regiments in the fold which had
been reduced by the exigencies of tn.
war. t#
During the year 1864, under the vari.
Gus calls of the General Government,
thirty two regiments, two battallions and
eight unattached companies of different
arms of the service and for various peri
DDS, were organized and sent to the field
aggregating, with re-enlstments in the
field, amounting to 1856, an aggregate
force of. 81 ,704 men, furnished for that
year
On my suggestion, the policy of con
solidatiug our reduced regiments, and
filling them up by the assignment of
new companies was adopted, and in 1865,
under this system, besides organizing
three entire now regiments, seventy five
companies were assigned to reduced reg
iments, BY which they were again filled
to the regimental standard. These three
new regiments and seventy.fve companies
with volunteer recruits for regiments in
the field, reported by the superlnteudcnts
of that service, amounted, in the aggre-
gate, to 26,750 men for this year.
In the month Of September 1862,
after the second disaster at BMl Run, it
became evident that the enemy had adop-
ted an aggressive policy, and was about
to invade the Northern States through
Maryland and the Southern border OF
Pennsylvania. Under the sanction of
the President of the United States, on
the llth day OF that month, issued my
calling into immediate ser.
vice fifty thousand of the freemen of
this State. Under this call twenty five
regiments and four companies ofinfantry,
fourteen unattached companies of cavalry,
and four batteries of artillery were ifnmc-
diately organized and sent to the border,
the greater portion advancing beyond the
State line into Maryland. General John
f. Reynolds, at that period commanding
the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, was
assigned, by the Secretary of
War, to the command of those troops,
by whose order they were returned 10
Pennsylvania, and by my proclamation,
on the 2ith of the month. In
acknowledgement Of the services render
ed by the men of Pennsylvania. Major
General Mcclellan, commanding the
Army of the Potomac, by letter dated
the 9th of September, 1862, acknowl-
edging the service, and thanking the
State, uses the following language:
"The manner in which the people of
Pennsylvania responded TO your call, aud
hastened to the defense of.their frontier,
no doubt exercised great influence upon
the enemy" and the Governor OF Mary
land, His Excellency A. W. Bradford, in
an order dated September 90, 1862, used
the following language in regard to these
troops: "The readiness with which they
crossed the border and took their stand
beside the Maryland brigade, shows that
the border is, in all respects, but an ideal
line, and that in such cause as now
uites us, Pennsylvania and Maryland
are but one"
In the month Of June, 1868, it again
became evident that the rebel army was
advancing North, threatening also the
western border Of Pennsylvania, and on
the 26th of that month | again issued
my proclamation calling the militia of the
State into immediate service. In the
Department of the Manongahela five reg
iments of infantry, one company of cav
airy and one battery of artillery, for nine
ty days service, and one battalion of
one battalion of cavalry, and
one battery Of artillery, for six months
u nited States service, we're organized
In the Department of the Susquehanna,
twenty three regiments and five unattach-
ed companies of infantry, and two un-
attached companies of cavalry for ninety
days; one battalion of infantry, one
battalion of cavalry, and four independ-
ent batteries of artillery, for three months;
three regiments of cavalry, two battal-
lions of infantry, and three independent