The PRESIDENT:
The undersigned, governors of States of the Union, impressed with the
belief that the citizens of the States which they respectively represent
are of one accord in the hearty desire that the recent successes of the
Federal arms may be followed up by measures which must insure the speedy
restoration of the Union, and believing that, in view of the present
state of the important military movements now in progress and the
reduced condition of our effective forces in the field, resulting from
the usual and unavoidable casualties in the service, the time has
arrived for prompt and vigorous measures to be adopted by the people in
support of the great interests committed to your charge, respectfully
request, if it meets with your entire approval, that you at once call
upon the several States for such number of men as may be required to
fill up all military organizations now in the field, and add to the
armies heretofore organized such additional number of men as may, in
your judgment, be necessary to garrison and hold all the numerous cities
and military positions that have been captured by our armies, and to
speedily crush the rebellion that still exists in several of the
Southern States, thus practically restoring to the civilized world our
great and good Government. All believe that the decisive moment is near
at hand, and to that end the people of the United States are desirous to
aid promptly in furnishing all reenforcements that you may deem needful
to sustain our Government.
ISRAEL WASHBURN, Jr., Governor of Maine; H.S. BERRY, Governor of
New Hampshire; FREDERICK HOLBROOK, Governor of Vermont; WILLIAM A.
BUCKINGHAM, Governor of Connecticut; E.D. MORGAN, Governor of New
York; CHARLES S. OLDEN, Governor of New Jersey; A.G. CURTIN, Governor
of Pennsylvania; A.W. BRADFORD, Governor of Maryland, F.H. PEIRPOINT,
Governor of Virginia; AUSTIN BLAIR, Governor of Michigan; J.B. TEMPLE,
President Military Board of Kentucky; ANDREW JOHNSON, Governor of
Tennessee; H.R. GAMBLE, Governor of Missouri; O.P. MORTON, Governor
of Indiana; DAVID TODD, Governor of Ohio; ALEXANDER RAMSEY, Governor
of Minnesota; RICHARD YATES, Governor of Illinois; EDWARD SALOMON,
Governor of Wisconsin.