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<p>Rockford, Nov. 7/61
</p><p>O M Hatch Esq
</p><p>Dear Sir:
</p><p>Sometime since, I signed a document addressed to the Governor, recommending Mr. F.A. Horsman of this place as a suitable person for a military appointment therein named - Quarter Master, I think. I did so, because our Co. of Winnebago has been very modest in these matters. Of course I was aware of the pressure upon the Governor, and well understood that the person I recommended must take his chances amongst a host of competitors.
</p><p>I now take the liberty to
</p>
<hr />
<p>address you upon the subject, and to enquire if the chances of the above named candidate – or perhaps I might say his county represented in his person – are worth considering, and, if so, whether it would be proper to ask you to say a word in his behalf if I state that he is worthy and well qualified in all respects for the position.
</p><p>I am aware that one occupying your position in times like these is overwhelmed with correspondence relating to matters outside the sphere of official duties, and trust that you will pardon me if I take too great a liberty. I am impelled to write by considerations
</p>
<hr />
<p>of duty to a friend and neighbor.
</p><p>Yours truly,
</p><p>William Hulin
</p><p>Governor Yates,
</p><p>This is a manly letter from an old friend to both of us. He is a good and true man – one that should be considered if possible. I put this as a request not as compliment. Do it if you can and personally oblige
</p><p>Your friend & me
</p><p>O. M. Hatch
</p><p>Nov 11./61
</p>
<hr />
<p>William Hulin
</p><p>to O. M. Hatch recommending F.A. Housman
</p><p>Write Mr. Hulin carefully - no vacancy - that Regts fix up so as to have me little chance
</p><p>H
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<p>Rockford, Nov. 7/61</p>
<p>O M Hatch Esq</p>
<p>Dear Sir:</p>
<p>Sometime since, I signed a document addressed to the Governor, recommending Mr. F.A. Horsman of this place as a suitable person for a military appointment therein named - Quarter Master, I think. I did so, because our Co. of Winnebago has been very modest in these matters. Of course I was aware of the pressure upon the Governor, and well understood that the person I recommended must take his chances amongst a host of competitors.</p>
<p>I now take the liberty to</p>
<hr />
<p>address you upon the subject, and to enquire if the chances of the above named candidate – or perhaps I might say his county represented in his person – are worth considering, and, if so, whether it would be proper to ask you to say a word in his behalf if I state that he is worthy and well qualified in all respects for the position.</p>
<p>I am aware that one occupying your position in times like these is overwhelmed with correspondence relating to matters outside the sphere of official duties, and trust that you will pardon me if I take too great a liberty. I am impelled to write by considerations</p>
<hr />
<p>of duty to a friend and neighbor.</p>
<p>Yours truly,</p>
<p>William Hulin</p>
<p>Governor Yates,</p>
<p>This is a manly letter from an old friend to both of us. He is a good and true man – one that should be considered if possible. I put this as a request not as compliment. Do it if you can and personally oblige</p>
<p>Your friend & me</p>
<p>O. M. Hatch</p>
<p>Nov 11./61</p>
<hr />
<p>William Hulin</p>
<p>to O. M. Hatch recommending F.A. Housman</p>
<p>Write Mr. Hulin carefully - no vacancy - that Regts fix up so as to have me little chance</p>
<p>H</p>
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<p>His Ex. Richard Yates
</p><p>Governor of Ill.
</p><p>Springfield
</p><p>My Dr. Sir
</p><p>If within your power, I desire the position of colonel of an infantry regiment. My friend Col. Wilcox will explain all. Aid me if you can.
</p><p>Truly & Respectfully
</p><p>Your friend & Obt svt
</p><p>R S Blackwell
</p><p>Chicago
</p><p>Nov 8 1861.
</p>
<hr />
<p>R. S. Blackwell
</p><p>Chicago
</p><p>Requesting appt. of Col. of Infantry.
</p><p><br />
(File)
</p><p>His Ex. Gov. Yates
</p><p>Springfield
</p><p>Ill.
</p><p><br />
[Pol.?] of Col Wilcox
</p>
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<p>His Ex. Richard Yates
</p><p>Governor of Ill.
</p><p>Springfield
</p><p>My Dr. Sir
</p><p>If within your power, I desire the position of colonel of an infantry regiment. My friend Col. Wilcox will explain all. Aid me if you can.
</p><p>Truly & Respectfully
</p><p>Your friend & Obt svt
</p><p>R S Blackwell
</p><p>Chicago
</p><p>Nov 8 1861.
</p>
<hr />
<p>R. S. Blackwell
</p><p>Chicago
</p><p>Requesting appt. of Col. of Infantry.
</p><p><br />
(File)
</p><p>His Ex. Gov. Yates
</p><p>Springfield
</p><p>Ill.
</p><p><br />
[Pol.?] of Col Wilcox
</p>
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<p>With Thomas Dummer letter 11/13/61
</p><p>Copy
</p><p>Camp of Instruction
</p><p>Berdan's U.S. Sharpshooters
</p><p>Washington 8 November 1861
</p><p>Joseph A. Warner Esq
</p><p>Chicago Illinois
</p><p>Sir I hereby authorize you to raise a company of sharpshooters for one of my regiments and to report with the same to me at this camp with as little delay as possible. You will have every man completely examined by a competent surgeon and under no circumstances will you accept any but strong able bodied men. Neither will you muster in any private who has not made a string of ten shots at rest with globe or telescopic sights at two hundred yards not exceeding fifty meters or the same string at one hundred yards with the common open sights. Camp and garrison equipage uniforms etc will be furnished here also superior rifles, with sharps improved breechgate, cast steel barrel, patched ball, double triggers rifle stock all complete and in the best manner made to order and in my judgment greatly superior to any guns you can bring for this branch of the service. I shall endeavor to put all companies from the same state in
</p>
<hr />
<p>one regiment. You will report to me from time to time on the progress you are making.
</p><p>Yours respectfully
</p><p>H. Berdan
</p><p>Col. Commanding U.S. Sharpshooters
</p><p>Chicago November 13, 1861
</p><p>To Governor Yates
</p><p>The above is a copy of an authority from Col Berdan to me to raise a company for his brigade. I hereby apply to you 1- for a commission as captain or an order therefore according to the practice in such case. 2- for permission to recruit men in this state for said company. 3d for subsistence & clothing for my men and an order to have my men submited & quartered in Camp Douglas; 4- for such aid in the way of passes &c as is by law given to recruiting officers.
</p><p>I take the liberty to add that the men who will enlist in this celebrated corps are those who will not volunteer in the ordinary regiments of the line. They are to be reserved for special services, such as their qualities fit them for. If they do not enlist in this corps their services will probably be lost to the country.
</p>
<hr />
<p>Even if they should enlist in some regular regiment of the line their efficiency would not equal that which they will have when they are kept for this specialty. The enclosed correspondence of Col. Berdan with the War Department shows the importance attached to this corps by the Federal Government, and it should be the pride of Illinois to contribute our quota to a body of men whose services have already been of so immense value to our cause.
</p><p>I wish to have the company raised as an “Illinois Company” & to be branded as “Illinois troops” I would like to have such a permission from the Governor to recruit in both the military departments of the state as would excite public attention and create an interest in the movement and this not only because I would like to have the sanction of the Governor of Illinois to what I am already authorized to do but because I hope that no little credit will accrue to the state from the conduct of this Company
</p><p>The Governors of other states have uniformly made this corps an exception to the general rule that recruits were not to
</p>
<hr />
<p>to be taken from the units of their respective states for independent organizations, and nowhere has the corps had [illegible] friends than in the Northwest.
</p><p>Hoping that you will also conclude to allow a company to be organized here I remain
</p><p>Very respectfully yours
</p><p>Joseph A. Warner
</p>
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<p>With Thomas Dummer letter 11/13/61
</p><p>Copy
</p><p>Camp of Instruction
</p><p>Berdan's U.S. Sharpshooters
</p><p>Washington 8 November 1861
</p><p>Joseph A. Warner Esq
</p><p>Chicago Illinois
</p><p>Sir I hereby authorize you to raise a company of sharpshooters for one of my regiments and to report with the same to me at this camp with as little delay as possible. You will have every man completely examined by a competent surgeon and under no circumstances will you accept any but strong able bodied men. Neither will you muster in any private who has not made a string of ten shots at rest with globe or telescopic sights at two hundred yards not exceeding fifty meters or the same string at one hundred yards with the common open sights. Camp and garrison equipage uniforms etc will be furnished here also superior rifles, with sharps improved breechgate, cast steel barrel, patched ball, double triggers rifle stock all complete and in the best manner made to order and in my judgment greatly superior to any guns you can bring for this branch of the service. I shall endeavor to put all companies from the same state in
</p>
<hr />
<p>one regiment. You will report to me from time to time on the progress you are making.
</p><p>Yours respectfully
</p><p>H. Berdan
</p><p>Col. Commanding U.S. Sharpshooters
</p><p>Chicago November 13, 1861
</p><p>To Governor Yates
</p><p>The above is a copy of an authority from Col Berdan to me to raise a company for his brigade. I hereby apply to you 1- for a commission as captain or an order therefore according to the practice in such case. 2- for permission to recruit men in this state for said company. 3d for subsistence & clothing for my men and an order to have my men submited & quartered in Camp Douglas; 4- for such aid in the way of passes &c as is by law given to recruiting officers.
</p><p>I take the liberty to add that the men who will enlist in this celebrated corps are those who will not volunteer in the ordinary regiments of the line. They are to be reserved for special services, such as their qualities fit them for. If they do not enlist in this corps their services will probably be lost to the country.
</p>
<hr />
<p>Even if they should enlist in some regular regiment of the line their efficiency would not equal that which they will have when they are kept for this specialty. The enclosed correspondence of Col. Berdan with the War Department shows the importance attached to this corps by the Federal Government, and it should be the pride of Illinois to contribute our quota to a body of men whose services have already been of so immense value to our cause.
</p><p>I wish to have the company raised as an “Illinois Company” & to be branded as “Illinois troops” I would like to have such a permission from the Governor to recruit in both the military departments of the state as would excite public attention and create an interest in the movement and this not only because I would like to have the sanction of the Governor of Illinois to what I am already authorized to do but because I hope that no little credit will accrue to the state from the conduct of this Company
</p><p>The Governors of other states have uniformly made this corps an exception to the general rule that recruits were not to
</p>
<hr />
<p>to be taken from the units of their respective states for independent organizations, and nowhere has the corps had [illegible] friends than in the Northwest.
</p><p>Hoping that you will also conclude to allow a company to be organized here I remain
</p><p>Very respectfully yours
</p><p>Joseph A. Warner
</p>
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<p>BRIGADE HEAD QUARTERS,
</p><p>CAMP CAIRO, November 8, 1861.
</p><p>GENERAL ORDER
</p><p>NO. 15
</p><p>The General commanding the first Brigade of Illinois Volunteers, takes pleasure in meeting to-day, those who conferred honor upon his command, by their gallantry and good conduct on yesterday. Few of you had before seen a battle. You were but imperfectly disciplined, and supplied with inferior arms. Yet you marched upon a concealed enemy, of superior numbers, on ground of their own choosing.
</p><p>You drove them steadily before you for two miles of continued fighting, and forced them to seek shelter in their entrenchments at Belmont, beneath the heavy batteries at Columbus. You drove them from their position, and destroyed their camp - bringing with you, on retiring, two hundred prisoners, two field pieces and a large amount of other property.
</p><p>Reinforced from Columbus, they formed in large numbers in your rear, to cut you off, while the heavy guns were playing upon your ranks. Fighting the same ground over again, you drove them a second time. A portion of the command becoming separated from the rest, made a successful and well ordered movement by another route, and returned to the river. After a day of fatiguing marches, fighting as you marched, having been nearly six hours actually engaged, you re-embarked, and returned to your camps.
</p><p>On looking along your ranks to-day, the commanding General has cause to mourn the absence of many of his gallant men - the victims of inexorable war. Some laid down their lives on the battle field, offering their blood freely, and giving their last and most glorious moments to their country. Others bear honorable wounds, and suffer more than those who died, yet, it is hoped, to resume their duties and win new honors.
</p><p>While mourning the dead, and offering sympathy to the suffering, the General commanding gratefully acknowledges his gratitude, and offers the thanks of a grateful country and State to the officers and soldiers of Illinois, under his command, for their gallantry and good conduct.
</p><p>When again called upon, he hopes to find you equally prompt, and better prepared, for battle, and for victory.
</p><p>By Order of
</p><p>JOHN A. McCLERNAND,
</p><p>Brigadier General Commanding.
</p><p>M. BRAYMAN,
</p><p>Assistant Adjutant General.
</p>
<hr />
<p>Genl. order no 15.
</p><p>Camp Cairo
</p><p>Novr. 8.
</p><p>File
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John A. McClernand General Order
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1861-11-08
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<p>BRIGADE HEAD QUARTERS,
</p><p>CAMP CAIRO, November 8, 1861.
</p><p>GENERAL ORDER
</p><p>NO. 15
</p><p>The General commanding the first Brigade of Illinois Volunteers, takes pleasure in meeting to-day, those who conferred honor upon his command, by their gallantry and good conduct on yesterday. Few of you had before seen a battle. You were but imperfectly disciplined, and supplied with inferior arms. Yet you marched upon a concealed enemy, of superior numbers, on ground of their own choosing.
</p><p>You drove them steadily before you for two miles of continued fighting, and forced them to seek shelter in their entrenchments at Belmont, beneath the heavy batteries at Columbus. You drove them from their position, and destroyed their camp - bringing with you, on retiring, two hundred prisoners, two field pieces and a large amount of other property.
</p><p>Reinforced from Columbus, they formed in large numbers in your rear, to cut you off, while the heavy guns were playing upon your ranks. Fighting the same ground over again, you drove them a second time. A portion of the command becoming separated from the rest, made a successful and well ordered movement by another route, and returned to the river. After a day of fatiguing marches, fighting as you marched, having been nearly six hours actually engaged, you re-embarked, and returned to your camps.
</p><p>On looking along your ranks to-day, the commanding General has cause to mourn the absence of many of his gallant men - the victims of inexorable war. Some laid down their lives on the battle field, offering their blood freely, and giving their last and most glorious moments to their country. Others bear honorable wounds, and suffer more than those who died, yet, it is hoped, to resume their duties and win new honors.
</p><p>While mourning the dead, and offering sympathy to the suffering, the General commanding gratefully acknowledges his gratitude, and offers the thanks of a grateful country and State to the officers and soldiers of Illinois, under his command, for their gallantry and good conduct.
</p><p>When again called upon, he hopes to find you equally prompt, and better prepared, for battle, and for victory.
</p><p>By Order of
</p><p>JOHN A. McCLERNAND,
</p><p>Brigadier General Commanding.
</p><p>M. BRAYMAN,
</p><p>Assistant Adjutant General.
</p>
<hr />
<p>Genl. order no 15.
</p><p>Camp Cairo
</p><p>Novr. 8.
</p><p>File
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S. B. Thompson receipt for tuition
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1861-11-09
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502372
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502373
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<p>Quincy Nov 9. 1861
</p><p>Dear Gov
</p><p>The Citizens of Schuyler, and other counties on this side of the River desire to raise an additional Regt to be placed under the command of Capt D P Wells as Col: He visits you to obtain the necessary authority and I hope it will be granted.
</p><p>He is a good man, and gallant officer, and has already been sometime in the service.
</p><p>Truly yr friend
</p><p>O. H. Browning
</p>
<hr />
<p>O. H. Browning
</p><p>Quincy Ill.
</p><p>Nov. 9. '61.
</p><p>Recommending Capt D. P. Wells. permission to raise Regiment
</p>
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<p>Quincy Nov 9. 1861
</p><p>Dear Gov
</p><p>The Citizens of Schuyler, and other counties on this side of the River desire to raise an additional Regt to be placed under the command of Capt D P Wells as Col: He visits you to obtain the necessary authority and I hope it will be granted.
</p><p>He is a good man, and gallant officer, and has already been sometime in the service.
</p><p>Truly yr friend
</p><p>O. H. Browning
</p>
<hr />
<p>O. H. Browning
</p><p>Quincy Ill.
</p><p>Nov. 9. '61.
</p><p>Recommending Capt D. P. Wells. permission to raise Regiment
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Statement of Kellogg
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502382
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J. W. Coppage to Richard Yates
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502383
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Title
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M. Brayman to Richard Yates
Date
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1861-11-11
Identifier
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502384
Format
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pdf
Publisher
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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Language
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en
Scripto
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Weight
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20000
Status
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