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Reinforcements For The Army

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
September
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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" New York, August 30. The WurhVs Washington special saj-s : Most onconraging accounts are reccivod from overy qiiitrter as to the number of recruits now being obtained. In Penneylvania about 30,000 men have been recruited ; quite ns many in New York, while New Enghind has furnished 20,000, nnd perhaps when all the returns are received the number w i 11 be found to be even greafer llian this. The Western States aro also dong very wol!. For sotne time past, reiiilorcements at tbü rato of 4,000 per week have been goiug furward to the Army of the Potomac, and for the next two or three weeks it is expected thrt 1,000 per day will üe forwarded. The average number of recruits now obtained duily throughont the country is about 1,300 and this number will (je inereasod to 2,000 or 2,500 per day before the 5th of September. At least 150,000 men will liuve beu raised for the Army nnd Nuvy befure the day named, not counting credits on previous calis or those a rising trom ionner naval o.ilistVhènts. llud the cali been for 300,000, it is thought the tnen eould easily have been obtaiued, but the large cali disconraged the people. On account, of these large ailditions to the im3', efiorts will bo made lo hi.vb the drait posipoii'jd in the hope that asuiïicient number oí men may bu obtained without reSprt to that objcctionablo measu"e. Il is uuderstoocl iu politioal irl tliat Senators Brown on-d Hcnderson, ■ of Missouri, are preparing ■■, inanife.-'to, similar in spiiii to that oí Messcs, Wnda Rnd Dpvís, reviüwing the pilicy of Mr. Lincpln'd :idmiiiÍHtrati(Mi, and ttrongiy antagonistic to liis re-eleótion.

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Michigan Argus