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 Fm.LoW-SoLDIERS OF T1IK lsi RCGIMCNT Tk.XAS MoVNTED KlH.KMEX: 
 
 Your country needs your services longer. Shall she have them: 
 is the question for you to decide Will juO respond to her second 
 call upon ym ;is promptly and nobly as you did to the first: or 
 will you leave her ranks in the midst of her darkest hour of trial.' 
 My own lie nt answers for you. that you will not abandon her flag 
 at this hour, and that you will re-en list immediately. Should 
 you do so, your term of service will be for two years from the ex- 
 piration of your pteseut term of twelve months'. You will be 
 continued as mounted Riflemen, and be permitted to retain the 
 arms you now have, and each non-com missioned < fhcer and sol- 
 dier will be entiled to $00 bounty, and a furlough not to exceed 
 60 days, to l»e regulated by circumstances. Should enough men 
 re-enlist in each company to authorize it to re-organize, and 
 enough companies ie-Mgnniz- to form a legiment, or battalion, 
 you will have the right to elect all your commissioned officers. 
 Having f .erved with them twelve months' you ought to make good 
 selections. The War Department declines to give the guarantte 
 that I asked for the regiment, (which was, that it should not be 
 kept on the frontier, but be permitted to go into the field where 
 fighting will be done.) hut says, that its services may be required 
 in anothar section of the country. The State regiment will be 
 kept on the frontier, which will be sufficient for its protection, 
 while they act on the defensive, which is necessary, at least while 
 the war continues. Hence, it is my opinion, that the regiment to 
 which you belong will not be needed there, and of course, will not 
 be kept where their services are not necessary. It is reported, and 
 believed, that 1 have been appointed Brigadier-General. If so, I 
 hope to go where there is a foe to meet upon the battle field, and 
 if so permitted, and you are in the service, I shall ask the Gov- 
 ernment to let you go with me as a portion of my permanent brig- 
 ade. We commenced together, among the very first soldiers in 
 
this war. My heart, soul, body, home, wife, children ull are in it. 
 The blood of my brother, who was to me the dearest being <>n 
 has been shed in it, and F intend to remain in it until peace 
 o that brother, fall in the defense of my country. 
 
 I call upon you, as my companions in arms, to remain in the ser- 
 vice with me, until we see our euemi- s vanquished and our coun- 
 try free. Our cause is just ; and if we will do our duty God will 
 give us success. Not being able to be with you, Lieutenant-Colo- 
 nel Frost is entrusted with the re enlistment and re-organization 
 of the troops. He understands his duty, and will do it firmly and 
 kindly, under the Orders from the War Department. 
 
 H. E. McCulloch, 
 Col. 1st Kegt. T. M. Rifles, 0. S. P. Army. 
 
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