Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Union Defence Committee of the City of New York, 1885: Minutes, Reports, and Correspondence; With an Historical
The news of the capitulation Of Fort Sumter, on the even ing of Saturday, the 13th April, 1861, and of its surrender by Major Robert Anderson, U. S. A., to the Confederate authorities, the following day, reached Washington Sunday morning, the 14th, and was announced in New York in the evening. The details of the gallant defence of the fort were published in the newspapers of Monday, the 15th, and the same morning a proclamation of the President was issued calling forth the militia of the States, to the amount of and 'appealing to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government, and to redress wrong already long enough endured.' In response to this call, Governor Morgan issued a proclamation, under date of Thursday, the 18th April, announcing a formal requisition by the President upon the State of New York 'for a quota of seventeen regiments of seven hundred and eighty men each, ' to be immediately detached from the militia of this State, to serve as infantry or rifiemen for a period of three months, unless sooner discharged, and in conformity thereto the Governor called for the aforesaid quota, consisting of six hundred and forty-nine Officers and twelve thousand six hundred and thirty one men, forming an aggregate force of thirteen thousand two hundred and eighty men.
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