Letter
Simon Cameron, August 27, 1861
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, August 27, 1861.
SIR:
This will be sent you by Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, U. S. A., who has heretofore communicated with you on the project of concentrating in a camp of instruction a number of regiments of United
States volunteers. As late emergencies may have somewhat interfered with this object, I have now to renew the request that you will put regiments, as soon as they can be prepared for service, under the orders of General Sherman, who will indicate the place of rendezvous. . I am, sir, very respeetfully,
your obedient servant,
SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary of War.
(Copy sent to the governor of Maine, three regiments; governor of
New Hampshire, two regiments; governor of Massachusetts, three
Secretary of War.
(Copy sent to the governor of Maine, three regiments; governor of
New Hampshire, two regiments; governor of Massachusetts, three
regiments; governor of Rhode Island, one regiment; governor of Connecticut, two regiments; governor of New York, three regiments.)
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, 1861–62. Location: Washington. Summary: Simon Cameron directs state governors to place newly prepared volunteer regiments under Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sherman's command for concentration at a designated training camp during the Civil War.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 6
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