veral States for such number of men as may be required to
fill up all military organizations now in the field, and add to the
armies heretofore organized such additional number of men as may, in
your judgment, be necessary to garrison and hold all the numerous cities
and military positions that have been captured by our armies, and to
speedily crush the rebellion that still exists in several of the
Southern States, thus practically restoring to the civilized world our
great and good Government. All believe that the decisive moment is near
at hand, and to that end the people of the United States are desirous to
aid promptly in furnishing all reenforcements that you may deem needful
to sustain our Government.

ISRAEL WASHBURN, Jr., Governor of Maine; H.S. BERRY, Governor of
New Hampshire; FREDERICK HOLBROOK, Governor of Vermont; WILLIAM A.
BUCKINGHAM, Governor of Connecticut; E.D. MORGAN, Governor of New
York; CHARLES S. OLDEN, Governor of New Jersey; A.G. CURTIN, Governor
of Pennsylvania; A.W. BRADFORD, Governor of Maryland, F.H. PEIRPOINT,
Governor of Virginia; AUSTIN BLAIR, Governor of Michigan; J.B. TEMPLE,
President Military Board of Kentucky; ANDREW JOHNSON, Governor of
Tennessee; H.R. GAMBLE, Governor of Missouri; O.P. MORTON, Governor
of Indiana; DAVID TODD, Governor of Ohio; ALEXANDER RAMSEY, Governor
of Minnesota; RICHARD YATES, Governor of Illinois; EDWARD SALOMON,
Governor of Wisconsin.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

_Washington, July 1, 1862_.

Gentlemen: Fully concurring in the wisdom of the views expressed to me
in so patriotic a manner by you in the communication of the 28th day of
June, I have decided to call into the service an additional force of
300,000 men. I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly
of infantry. The quota of your State would be ------. I trust that they
may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and
injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion. An order
fixing the quotas of the respective States will be issued by the War
Department to-morrow.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

_Washington, July 11, 1862_.

_Ordered_, That Major-General Henry W. Halleck be assigned to command
the whole land forces of the United States as General in Chief, and that
he repair to this capital as soon as he can with safety to the positions
and operations within the department under his charge.

A. LINCOLN.

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