Unknown to Edwin M. Stanton, May 21, 1862

Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington City, D. C.:

SIR : Your circular communication of the respective dates of April 11, 1862, and April 28, 1862, are this day received, and the acknowledgment is made by telegraph, via San Francisco. As your circular of the latest date appears to be a duplicate of the first, an answer to either is deemed to be sufficient. You desire me to “send to your Department a full and accurate statement of all the troops from this State which are now in the service of the General Government, together with a separate list of all not mustered into the service; and all used as home guards.” In reply I have to say that the Governor of this State is not officially informed that there are any troops from this State now in the service of the General Government. In September last, Colonel Wright, then commanding the military in Oregon, made a requisition on the Governor of this State for one company of mounted volunteers, intended for the Indian service on the frontiers of this State and Washineton Territory. The requisition was responded to and the reeruitment about completed, when the authorities were informed that the volunteers were not needed, and soon after the Governor was ordered by Colonel Wright to disband the men already enrolled, which, however, had been done before the receipt of the order. During the winter and spring just passed there has been, as I learn through the public prints, a regiment of mounted men raised in this State, but as to their strength I have no official knowledge, they having been recruited and officered by officers appointed by the President; the authorities of this State have never been called upon or consulted with, in the matter of raising troops here or appointing their officers, except in the case of Colonel Wright, above referred to. There is not a figure or the seratch of a pen in the executive office which would enable me to answer your inquiries. As to home guards [ am not aware that there are any such as your inquiries are intended to cover now in this State, nor indeed has there ever been,

with great respect, your obedient servant,