1863 Report
Appendix A
STATE OF VERMONT.
Adjutant and Inspector General's Office
Woodstock, August 3, 1863.General Order No. 1
The following communication, addressed to the Governor of this State by the Provost Marshal General, is published for the information of the towns interested:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
His Excellency, FREDERICK HOLBROOK,
Provost Marshall General's Office,
Washington, D. C., July 19, 1863.
Governor State of Vermont, Montpelier, Vt.,Sir:--The Enrolment act only provides that in assigning to the Districts of a State the number of men to be furnished therefrom, the President shall take into consideration the number of Volunteers and militia furnished by and from said State, and the period of their service, &c. If, however, it shall be made to appear to the Provost Marshal General, by the Governor of any State, that particular towns, to which quotas have been assigned, have heretofore actually furnished a surplus of men over their quotas, an order will be issued discharging from the service of the United States a number of men, called into service by the present draft from said towns, equal to the surplus proved to have been furnished heretofore. Towns will thus get credit actually for their excess on former calls.
The number of men thus discharged from the service will be added to the next subsequent quota of the Congressional District to which said towns belong.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES B. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.The several towns named below have heretofore furnished a surplus of men for three years' service in the army of the United States, over their respective quotas of all troops called for by the President of the United States; and the amount of the surplus thus furnished by each town, and for which such town is now entitled to credit, according to the terms of the communication from the Provost Marshal General, is stated against the name of such town. In computing the surplus, for which the several towns are entitled to credit, the number of men furnished for three years' service, and also the number of men furnished for nine months' service, have been considered and the whole reduced to three years' men, according to the rule prescribed by the War Department,--regarding four men for nine-months' service equal to one man for three years' service.
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Bennington 25 Hancock 8 Poultney 1 Brandon 36 Ira 3 Ripton 11 Bridport 4 Landgrove 1 Roxbury 55 Bristol 3 Mendon 12 Salisbury 23 Cabot 22 Middlebury 33 TInmouth 3 Calais 4 Middlesex 3 Vergennes 4 Castleton 1 Montpelier 80 Wallingford 15 Clarendon 9 Moretown 2 Warren 8 Duxbury 2 Mount Holly 11 Waterbury 12 East Montpelier 13 Mount Tabor 11 Woodbury 22 Granville 2 Pittsford 1 Worcester 21 SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Barnet 5 Hardwick 1 Somerset 1 Bradford 22 Ludlow 25 Springfield 5 Braintree 10 Newfane 3 Stratton 5 Brattleboro 47 Putney 1 Vernon 5 Brookfield 2 Randolph 3 Williamstown 2 Brookline 3 Rochester 5 Cavendish 8 Royalton 7 THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Barton 1 Fairfax 25 Richford 11 Belvidere 15 Granby 3 Richmond 6 Bloomfield 3 Guildhall 4 Salem 13 Brighton 22 Holland 9 Sheldon 25 Brownington 20 Huntington 1 St. Albans 46 Burlington 55 Hydepark 39 Stowe 7 Charleston 43 Irasburgh 20 Troy 42 Concord 6 Isle La Motte 14 Underhill 7 Coventry 1 Jay 9 Victory 2 Craftsbury 15 Johnson 216 Waterville 30 Derby 60 Lowell 10 Westfield 10 East Haven 7 Maidstone 1 Westford 9 Eden 32 Milton 8 Wolcott 25 Elmore 32 Morristown 19 Essex 1 Newport 20
The surplus, which each town is herein shown to have furnished, has been certified by the Governor of this State to the Provost Marshal General. To obtain the benefit of the credit, in the manner indicated by the communication of the Provost Marshal General, the several towns will make application, by their Selectmen, to the Provost Marshals of their respective districts.
By order of the Governor, PETER T. WASHBURN Adjutant and Inspector General.
