Serge A. J. Pleasonton to Major-General Coucs, June 17, 1863

; June 17, 1863. Major-General Coucs, Harrisburg, or Chambersburg :

It is important that men should be posted in Somerset County and the mountain east. All in your department to notify us of the approach of the enemy in that direction ; also to obstruct the roads crossing the mountain. I have sent parties for this purpose. Will it interfere with any of your arrangements? Is there anything reliable this morning of the enemy’s movements ?

W. T. H. BROOKS, Major-General.

Washington, D. C., June 17, 1863. Major-General SANDFORD : Iam directed by the Secretary of War to answer your telegram of yesterday, and to say that each case will be decided as it arises, when a brigade is ready, you naming the brigade and brigade commander. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief.

Astor Hous, N. Y., June 17, 1863. (Received 8.40 p. m.) Major-General HALLEcK, General-in-Chief :

I have organized two brigades, one commanded by Brigadier-General Hall, consisting of the Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and Twentysecond New York National Guards ; the other by Brigadier-General Yates, consisting of the Fifth, Sixth, Twelfth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventy-first National Guards, to which I will add the Fourth Regiment National Guards, consisting of 400 artillery, if you can furnish the horses, guns, and caissons at Harrisburg. a

C. W. SANDFORD, Major-General.

HARRISBURG, June 17, 1863. (Received June 18, 1.10 a. m.) The One hundred and seventy-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, a drafted regiment, now at Yorktown, have offered to re-enlist for six months for the service for which we are now preparing troops. Can such an arrangement be made? I think the example would lead to similar offers from other regiments.

Boston, Mass., Jume 17, 1863—2.30 p. m.

It is not possible to induce the three nine-months’ regiments, which have just returned, to proceed to Pennsylvania. One has only been

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home twenty-four hours, and neither of them has been paid. As soon as paid and mustered out, if the exigency continues, we could in a few days raise a regiment. Many of them expect to enlist in other corps. One full company of infantry will proceed to-morrow, well officered and equipped, for six-months’ service. One full battery of light artillery will probably be ready this week. All our State militia regiments are absorbed in the nine-months’ service.

W. M. SCHOULER, Adjutant-General of Massachusetts.

PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 17, 1863—10.30 p. m. (Received June 18, 1.15 a. m.) ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States:

The undersigned, appointed by the executive committee of public safety, acting in pursuance of the repeated and earnest wishes of successive meetings of citizens, request you to authorize Major-General Brooks to declare martial law.

PHILADELPHIA, Jume 17, 1863—1.33 p. m. Hon. E. M. Stanton:

Srr: Under an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, approved May 16, 1861, I have been assigned to the command of the city of a eae for the preservation of its peace ai.d the defense of the city.

I desire that you may give the necessary directions by telegraph to the several military bureaus to supply such requisitions as may make for the troops and for the defense of the city, the account to be settled by the city of Philadelphia, which has appropriated $500,000 for the purpose, or to be accounted by the State of Pennsylvania in the settlement of its accounts with the United States. I have also to request the loan of three field batteries, completely equipped excepting horses, and with the proper supply of munitions for the defense of the city, to be receipted for by the mayor of Philadelphia.

Respectfully, yours, &c.,