You will make requisitions upon the proper Departments for everything necessary, allowed by the Army Regulations, for the comfort and subsistence of the men. You will at once organize the men into temporary squads or companies for drill, and designate a drill-master for each squad or company. You will see to it, that the rolls are duly called every morning and evening. Furloughs will be granted only in cases of extreme emergency. In relation to the matter of discharges from service, in addition to the instructions heretofore given you, I have to add : First-You will discharge all who are over forty-five years of age at the time they claim their discharge. Second-You will discharge all who are under the age of eighteen years., Third-You will discharge all to whom the surgeon to your camp may give certificates of disability. Fourth-You will discharge all who may have been improperly enrolled in the district from which they were drafted. You will not discharge upon any other grounds than those herein stated. Upon satisfactory evidence that a drafted man belongs to a church, the creed of which forbids self-defense or the use of arms, you will discharge him, upon payment to you of the sum of two hundred dollars. All sums thus received you will pay over to Quartermaster-General Wright, and take his receipt therefor. You will permit drafted men to offer substitutes, and upon their acceptance by you, give the drafted man a certificate of discharge. The individual thus offered as a substitute must produce the certificate of the surgeon of his fitness and ability to discharge the duties of a soldier before being received by you. You will permit drafted men, and also substitutes for drafted men to enlist in any regiment or corps for three years or during the war, and, upon their presenting to you the certificate of any regularly appointed recruiting officer of the fact of their enlistment, and of their having been regularly sworn in, you will turn them over to said recruiting officer. You will make daily reports to Adjutant General Hill, showing: First. The number of drafted men in camp, and the county from which drafted. Second. The number of men who have volunteered in three year regimentsgiving the number of the regiment. Third. The number by you discharged from the service, and the reasons for such discharge. To Col. DAVID TOD, Governor. THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTive Department, Commandant of Camp You will certainly appreciate the importance to the government of securing as many recruits as possible for three years or during the war, from the drafted men, or their substitutes, at your camp. You will, therefore, do all in your power to facilitate recruiting. Those inclined to volunteer should be permitted, without let or hindrance, to select the regiment or corps they wish to join. If the camp or rendezvous for the recruits is other than your camp, you will permit the recruit, after being sworn in, to leave your camp with his recruiting officer. To give ample opportunity for all to enlist that may desire, it is my purpose to delay the organization of the drafted men into companies and regiments a reason. able length of time. You will, therefore, organize the drafted men into squads for exercise and drill, and leave the work of further organization to Adjutant General Hill. It is very important that you make returns every morning to Adjutant General Hill, embracing the points indicated in my former order. DAVID TOD, Governor. THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE Department, -County: To the Commissioner of Draft of You will forward to Quartermaster General, Geo. B. Wright, on or before the 25th inst., by express, all moneys by you received from men exempted from draft under my former order, with a statement of the names of persons from whom received. Very Respectfully, To Col. C. B. Allison, Camp Dennison, Ohio: DAVID TOD, Governor. COLUMBUS, OHIO, Oct. 18, 1862. In reply to your letter of yesterday. You may look behind the enlistment, and, if well satisfied that at the time it was made it was agreed that the recruit was to take the place of a drafted man, you may receive him as such. It is no objection to a substitute offered that he is a foreigner who has never declared his intention to become a citizen. To His Excellency Gov. Tod: DAVID TOD, Governor. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., October 20, 1862. I am directed by the Secretary of War to inform you that he has exempted from draft the clerks in the service of the United States mustering and disbursing officers. L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, 20th October, 1862. It is hereby ordered that all persons who may have actually been drafted into the military service of the United States, and who may claim exemption on account of alienage, will make application therefor directly to the department of State, or through their respective ministers or consuls. By the President, WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, 20th October, 1862. Pursuant to the above order, the proper officers are directed to report to the department of State the cases to which the order refers. EDWIN M. STANTON. Secretary of War. Col. THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Commandant of Camp Drafted men, who have been regularly discharged from service from any of the old regiments on account of disability, on presentation of certificate of such discharge, may be discharged by you from draft. Applications for discharge by aliens must be referred with the proofs to this department. Hon. David Tod, Governor of Ohio: DAVID TOD, Governor. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, October 29, 1862. You are hereby authorized and directed by the Secretary of War to assign, from the militia drafted in your State, so many men for each organized regiment in the field as may be required to fill up each regiment to its maximum number. The residue of the drafted men, after the old regiments in the field are filled, will be organized into companies and regiments, and you will appoint company and regimental officers, as in the case of volunteers. Lists of the regiments, their stations and number of men required to fili to maximum, will be furnished from this office. L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 1, 1862. To Hon. M. E. Stanton, Sec'y of War, Washington, D. C.: The drafted men in camp are suffering for the want of clothing. In view of this, I wish you to order Col. Brooks to have the men mustered into unassigned regiments, and, when thus mustered, to issue clothing to the commanders of the camps of rendezvous for them. DAVID TOD, Governor. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 3, 1862. lo M. C. Meigs, Q. M. General, Washington, D. C.; I am directed to organize the drafted men without officers; hence the receipt of the ordinary officers cannot be obtained. The men are suffering for clothing. Why not order it issued upon my requisition? DAVID TOD, Governor. THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Charles W. Hill, Adjutant General of Ohio: SIR-I hand you herewith copies of dispatches from the Secretary of War, touching the organization of the drafted militia, and I have to request that you proceed, without delay-taking an efficient clerk with you-to Camp Mansfield, and there superintend the preparation of the drafted men in that camp for the field. The order designating the regiments to which the men are to be assigned, has not yet reached me. Should it come to hand before you get through with your labors, I will communicate it to you. In the mean time, you will cause rolls of the men to be made out, in such numbers of not less than seventy-five nor over one hundred and twenty-five, as may be desired by the men. The object of this is to meet the supposed wishes of the men, as far as practicable, to remain together. When thus enrolled, you will see that they are regularly mustered into the service of the United States, as unassigned troops, and that there be issued to them the usual clothing, for which you will make requisitions. The men are permitted, during the progress of this work, to furnish substitutes, and also to enlist in the three years' service, as heretofore. I am aware that the order for the disposition of the drafted men will take them by surprise; but I trust that, upon reflection, they will see and appreciate that their services will be far more efficient to the government, under this order, than any other disposition that could be made of them, and thus seeing, they will cheerfully and promptly obey the order. DAVID TOD, Governor. THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, George B. Wright, Quartermaster-General : To expedite the business of organizing the drafted militia of Ohio, I have to request that you proceed to the camp of rendezvous at Cleveland, taking a clerk with you, and superintend the work at that camp. A duplicate of the instructions given Adjutant General Hill, is herewith inclosed for your guidance. Respectfully yours, DAVID TOD, Governor. THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Col. S. Bliss, Assistant Quartermaster-General : To expedite the business of organizing the drafted militia of Ohio, I have to request that you proceed to the camp of rendezvous at Zanesville, taking a clerk with you, and superintend the work at that camp. A duplicate of the instructions given Adjutant-General Hill is herewith inclosed for your guidance. Respectfully yours, DAVID TOD, Governor. THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVE Department, Gen. George B. Wright, Care of Col. Geo. B. Senter, Camp Cleveland, O.: DEAR GENERAL: Herewith you have copy of the memoranda from the War Department, designating the number of men wanted by each regiment in the field, and giving also the location of the regiments. As heretofore instructed, you will permit the men to select the regiments to which they wish to be assigned, as far as practicable. My advice to the men is, to select the regiments now under command of Gen. Rosecrans, in Kentucky. . By thus doing, they will be nearer home and more within our reach and protec tion. You are aware that Gen. Hill is at Mansfield, and Col. Bliss at Zanesville, and hence you must keep up a constant telegraphic correspondence with each other as to the selections made from day to day by the men. I have sent to Gen. Hill and Col. Bliss copies of the inclosed, with similar instructions to these now given you. Very truly yours, DAVID TOD, Governor. THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUTIVe Department, SIR: You will, if you have not already done so, issue separate warrants for the arrest and conveyance to the camp of rendezvous, of all the drafted men in your county who have failed to report at camp, and place the same in the hands of the Provost Marshal of your county for execution. You will instruct the Marshal to use ordinary diligence in the execution of this duty. If men are too unwell to go to camp, allow them to remain until able, and then take them. The obligation upon the drafted man to the Government is to serve it for nine months from the day he may be taken to camp. Hence the warrant may be executed at any time during the existence of the rebellion. Very respectfully, DAVID TOD, Governor. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 13, 1862. To Gen. C. P. Buckingham, Washington, D. C.: The several Draft Commissioners and their employees are pressing me sorely for the settlement and payment of their accounts. Please see that I am relieved as soon as possible. To DAVID TOD, Governor. THE STATE OF OHIO, EXECUtve DepartmeNT, Esq, Draft Commissioner of county: Recent instructions from the War Department, in relation to the payment of subsistence bills for drafted men, require : 1st. That the contract for subsistence be sent to me. 2d. That the accounts, in triplicate, be made out and approved by the Drafting Commissioner of the county, and also the commandant of the camp of rendezvous, and also sent to this Department. Each copy of the account must be receipted by the party furnishing the subsistence. I recommend that you present these accounts to the commandant of the camp in person, that you may be prepared to make such explanations as may be required. For this service your expenses and per diem will be allowed. The accounts thus verified will be sent to Washington by special agent from this office, and, I doubt not, promptly paid, of which you will have due notice. DAVID TOD, Governor. |