Major-General to Edwin M. Stanton, June 15, 1863

(Received 10.45 p. m.) Hon. E. M. Stanton: I have struggled actively and anxiously to get troops on the call made last niche Is it not better that I should call on the people of the State to meet the emergency without regard to time of service? And if I do, with your advice and consent, the General Government must assume the responsibility of supplies and movement. We must have all your facilities to meet the case. We cannot organize others. The dangers are increased hourly, and I await reply. A. G. CURTIN, Governor. Wak DEPARTMENT, June 15, 1863—2 a. m, Governor Top, Columbus, Ohio: Reports received yesterday and last night have rendered it certain that Lee is advancing with his whole army to invade the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and probably Ohio. The President, to meet the exigency, has called for 100,000 militia, to serve for six months, unless sooner discharged. Of these, 50,000 are called from Pennsylvania, 30,000 from Ohio. I hope you will speedily have Ohio’s proportion ready for Pittsburgh and Wheeling, or wherever required. Order has been made for the issue of arms and ammunition immediately. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. . CoLuMBUS, Ohio, June 15, 1863. You have doubtless been advised of the President’s proclamation calling for 30,000 men from Ohio for the protection of Western Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Eastern Ohio. I have issued a proclamation appealing to the loyal people to respond to this call, and doubt not they will do so. ave named amps Cleveland, Chase, Dennison, and Marietta as the camps of rendezvous. I have fears that our southern border may be invaded at the same time, and therefore have not limited my call to any specified number of men, and hope to receive at least 50,000. Please confer with General Burnside, and, if possible, visit me. DAVID TOD, Governor. PENNSYLVANIA, ss: In the name and oi the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of the said Commonwealth. The State of Pennsylvania is again threatened with invasion, and an army of rebels is approaching our border. The President of the United States has issued his proclamation, calling upon the State for 50,000 men. I now appeal to all the citizens of Pennsylvania who love liberty and are mindful of the history and traditions of their revolutionary fathers, and who feel that it is a sacred duty to guard and maintain the free institutions of our country, who hate treason and its abettors, and who are willing to defend their homes and their firesides, and do invoke them to rise in their might, and rush to the rescue in this hour of imminent peril. The issue is one of preservation or destruction. It invokes considerations paramount to all matters of mere expediency ; and all questions of local interest, all ties, social and political, all impulses of a personal and partisan character, sink by comparison into insignificance. It is now to be determined by deeds, and not by words alone, who are for us and who are against us. That it is the purpose of the enemy to invade our borders with all the strength he can command is now apparent. Our only dependence rests upon the determined action of the citizens of our free Commonwealth. I now, therefore, call upon the people of Pennsylvania capable of bearing arms to enroll themselves in military organizations, and to encourage all others to give aid and assistance to the efforts which willbe put forth for the protection of the State and the salvation of our common country. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at Harrisburg, the fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Commonwealth the eightyseventh. By the Governor : [SEAL.] ELi SLIFER, Secretary of the Commonwealth. HEADQUARTERS SECOND CoRPs, June 16, 1863—3 a. m. General BUTTERFIELD, Chief of Staff, Hdgqrs. Army of the Potomac: Have heard from General Warren at 10p.m. He says he will have no difficulty in obeying your orders to hold on till further orders. He was at Potomac Creek at 8 p. m. witha locomotive. No enemy could be heard of. Everything but rolling-stock will be shipped tonight; that will be afioat to-morrow afternoon. General Warren says dispatches can reach him more rapidly and certainly, if necessary, by steamboats at Occoquan.

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