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Re: Recruitment order #574
In Response To: Recruitment order #574 ()

I don't have the order [yet], but perhaps it was related to the Governor's call for 15 more regiments in the spring of 1862.

3/7/62Gov Lubbock to Sec of War-Your favor of 2/3 reached me on 2/25 at the city of Austin. On the day following (26th) I issued my proclamation, in accordance with your requisition, for fifteen Regts of troops for the war, a copy of which proclamation I have the honor to enclose.

I immediately repaired to Houston, and have been arranging with Gen Hebert to place the troops at proper points of rendezvous and have them subsisted, & c. I am informed by Gen Hebert that his Dept is entirely destitute of means to provide for these camps of instruction. The State is totally unable to make advances. Her treasury is in a lamentably depleted condition, and her people have furnished so much already to the Confederate and State Gov’t’s on a credit that it is now a very difficult task to obtain supplies on the faith of either. It must be very apparent that to purchase on a credit is anything but a wise policy, as the parties selling invariably charge a much higher price than they would if the money was paid at the time the transaction was made.

Under these circumstances I have taken the responsibility of sending on at the expense of the State a special messenger to assure your Dept of the immediate necessity of filling the requisition forwarded, that I may be enabled at once to place the troops needed in the field. In this requisition QM’s stores & camp equipage, which are very much needed, are not included, and the Dept here is entirely destitute of them. The troops must and will be furnished. You will not understand me as wishing to delay for a moment the raising of the men. On the contrary, I shall proceed at once to put them in camp and subsist them on a credit until I hear from you.

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