"Upon receipt of the above, and after consultation with General Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon General-who, permit me to add, is precisely the right man in the right place-I dispatched the following reply: "General Robertson: "SIR-Your telegram is received. Large provision has already been made by the Surgeon General and the various sanitary commissions to meet the requirements. I have forwarded Mrs. Brainard and Miss Wheelock, with three assistants and twenty boxes of sanitary stores, to Fredericksburg, on the 10th instant. The Surgeon General directs me to say that he will accept the services of ten (10) experienced surgeons, fully equipped for ten (10) days' service in the field. Direct them to report at this office. I have made provision to have them forwarded.' "It is with no ordinary pride that I record the fact that, in response to this invitation, thirty-three surgeons, with their assistants, left their business and the comforts of home to volunteer their services, without compensation, to aid their suffering countrymen at this trying period, and among them are many of the most eminent surgeons of our State. I deem it but just that I should append their names: "Drs. Alonzo B. Palmer, Ann Arbor; D. L. Davenport, E. M. Clark, Detroit; Edward Cox, Z. L. Slater, Battle Creek; C. F. Ashley, W. G. Cox, A. F. Kinney, Ypsilanti; W. B. Smith, Ann Arbor; Gordon Chittock, F. M. Reasnor, Jackson; R. B. Gates, George Barnes, Chelsea; S. C. Willie, East Saginaw M. F. Baldwin, Flint; Stephen Griggs, E. W. Goodwin, Detroit; E. Church, Marshall; R. H. Davis, Mason; James C. Willson, Flint; H. C. Farrand, East Saginaw; J. E. Smith, Portland; John Smith, Pontiac; J. E. Wilson, Rochester; F. B. Galbraith, C. C. Jerome, Port Huron; O. F. Burroughs, Galesburg; J. P. Nash, Marshall; W. L. Stillwell, Kalamazoo; S. Lathrop, Pine Burr; H. C. Fairbank, Grand Blanc; E. R. Ellis and L. DePuy, Grand Rapids. "Thousands of the soldiers of our army-for their labors were not restricted to the soldiers of our state-will remember so long as the pulses of life flow, with grateful hearts, the unselfish devotion and skill with which this body of volunteer surgeons labored to relieve them. "They were not all assigned to duty at Fredericksburg; for, as the army advanced, some of them were sent to the White House, and many of them to City Point. Most of them remained so long as their services were needed, and I regret to add that a number of them returned in a greatly impaired state of health. "The following young gentlemen, students of medicine and surgery, forwarded by the citizens of Ann Arbor, reported as volunteer dressers, June 1st, were accepted by the Surgeon General, and sent to duty in hospitals at City Point: Messrs. O. Marshall, M. O. Bently, P. Martin, J. K. Johnson and D. V. Dean. They all did well-indeed, most of them were so well liked by the medical officers in charge that they were soon employed as assistant surgeons, and placed in charge of surgical wards. It may be well to add here that these young men had nearly completed their course of study preparatory to graduation. The people of Ann Arbor may well feel proud of their contribution. It was what money could not purchase." ARMY VOTE. In accordance with an act of the legislature, approved February 5th, 1864, to enable the qualified electors of this State in the military service to vote at certain elections, the same were held amongst the Michigan troops in the service of the United States on the 7th day of November, 1864. They took place under the supervision of the commissioners appointed in the following letter of the Executive, and were conducted in compliance with the instructions therein contained: STATE OF MICHIGAN, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, The several commissioners appointed and commissioned under the act entitled "An act to enable the qualified electors of the State in the military service to vote at certain elections, and to amend sections 45 and 61 of chapter 6 of the compiled laws," are directed immediately to make and file with the Secretary of State the oath of office required by law, and on or before the 25th day of October instant to report at the office of the Adjutant General in Detroit, where the necessary poll-books, blank forms, certificates, and instructions, together with copies of the law, will be furnished them. Having been so furnished, the commissioners will immediately proceed to the places where the work assigned them is to be performed. In the performance of their duties they will take the oath of office as the guide, and will do their duty "impartially, fully, and without reference to political preferences or results.' It will be proper for them to carry printed ballots with them for the use of the electors of whatever party; but the act forbids them to attempt in any manner to influence or control the vote of any soldier. Such printed ballots may also be left at the office of the Adjutant General in Detroit, to be delivered to the commissioners, or they may be delivered directly to the commissioners themselves. In the apportionment of the work it has been found very difficult to make it equal or even to cover the whole ground. The commissioners are therefore required, if necessary, to assist each other, and wherever small bodies of Michigan troops are found with whom no commissioner is present to act as such. The work is apportioned among the commissioners as follows: ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. David B. Harrison, Mason, 26th Infantry, 1st division, 2d army corps, near Petersburg, Va. M. D. Hamilton, Monroe, 7th Infantry, 2d division, 2d army corps, and Company "B," 2d U. S. S. S., 1st division, 3d army corps, near Petersburg, Va. Edwin C. Hinsdale, Detroit, 5th Infantry, 3d division, 2d army corps, and Companies "C," "I," and "K," 1st U. S. S. S., in the same division, near Petersburg, Virginia. John S. Estabrook, East Saginaw, 1st and 16th Infantry, 1st division, 5th army corps, near Petersburg, Va. William W. Wright, Livonia, 24th Infantry, 3d division, 5th army corps, near Petersburg, Va. William Winegar, Grass Lake, 2d, 8th, and 17th Infantry, 1st division, 9th army corps, near Petersburg, Va. Joseph Warren, Detroit, 20th and 27th Infantry and 1st Sharp-Shooters, 1st division, 9th army corps, near Petersburg, Va. Jacob Kanouse, Cohoctah, 1st and 5th Cavalry, 1st division, cavalry corps, in the Shenandoah Valley. Martin Gray, Saline, 6th and 7th Cavalry, 1st division, cavalry corps, in the Shenandoah Valley. Andrew Robinson, Sharon, one company 1st Cavalry, and one company 26th Infantry, and U. S. hospitals, at Alexandria, Va. Charles Betts, Burr Oak, 13th and 14th batteries, Fort Foot, Maryland, and hospitals in Washington. ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. Asher E. Mather, Pontiac, 9th and 22d Infantry, General Thomas' headquarters, near Atlanta, Ga. William A. Robinson, Grand Rapids, 10th and 14th Infantry, 2d division, 14th army corps, near Atlanta, Ga. Henry L. Hall, Hillsdale, 18th Infantry, 4th division, 20th army corps, near Decatur, Ala. John C. Laird, Mendon, 19th Infantry and Battery "I," 3d division, 20th army corps, near Atlanta, Ga. L.M. S. Smith, Grand Haven, 13th and 21st Infantry, engineer brigade, Lookout Mountain, Tenn. David Horton, Adrian, 4th Cavalry, 2d division, cavalry corps, near Atlanta, Ga. John McNeil, Port Huron, 2d Cavalry, 1st division, cavalry corps, near Franklin, Tenn. Albert Miller, Bay City, Batterties "E" and "D," Battery "E" at Nashville, Tenn., Battery "D" at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and the hospitals at Nashville. E. D. W. Burtch, Lansing, 1st engineers and mechanics, Cartersville, Ga. Asa Bunnell, Lyons, Company "D," 66th Illinois volunteers, and Companies "B" and "H," 44th Illinois volunteers, near Atlanta, Ga. John H. Richardson, Tuscola, 29th Infantry, Nashville, Tenn. ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. William Sinclair, Jonesville, 15th Infantry, 2d division, 15th army corps, near Atlanta, Ga. Thaddeus G. Smith, Fentonville, Batteries "B" and "C," 16th army corps, Battery "B," at Rome, Ga., and Battery "C," at East Point, Ga. Sylvester Higgins, Charlotte, Batteries "H" and "K," 17th army corps, near Atlanta, Ga. James J. Hogaboom, Hudson, 23d and 25th Infantry, and Battery "F,” 2d division, 23d army corps, near Decatur, Ga. William Hulsart, Romeo, 8th Cavalry, Nicholasville, Ky., and Batteries "L" and "M," 23d army corps, Cumberland Gap, Tenn. M. S. Bowen, Coldwater, 9th Cavalry, cavalry division, 23d army corps, near Atlanta, Ga. Henry H. Holt, Muskegon, 10th Cavalry, cavalry division, 23d army corps, Strawberry Plain, Tenn. William A. House, Kalamazoo, cavalry division, 23d army corps, Louisa, Ky. ARMY OF THE GULF. Warren S. Crippen, Schoolcraft, 6th Heavy Artillery, near Mobile, and Battery "G," New Orleans. Levi Sparks, Niles, 12th Infantry, 2d division, 7th army corps, Duvall's Bluff, Ark. Nathan H. Bitely, Lawton, 3d Cavalry, at Duvall's Bluff, Ark. W. Y. Rumney, Detroit, 4th Infantry, Nashville. Josiah Turner, Owosso, hospitals at Annapolis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and York, Penn. Weston Flint, hospitals at St. Louis, Mo. Caleb Clark, hospitals at Washington, and Frederick, Md. AUSTIN BLAIR. |