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Austin Groves Cemetery, 67-2 Summary Report, page 24
be recruited, as many of them are employed by their wages. After I he organization of the seventh regi- Louisville, Ky., June 15 y 1861,. .. fl Edwin M. Stanton, H"?n' ' Secretary of IKor: Snu Altogether six regiments of colored troops have been raised in Missouri and distributed??"one at Memphis, two at Helena, two at Port Hudson, and one at Baton Rouge. There are eighty-three recruits at Saint Louis toward the formation of tbo seventh regiment. The number of able-bodied slaves in Mis-souri is less than 3,000, and General Pile is of opinion that not more than~lt000 can bo recruited, as many of them are employed bv their owners at fair wages. After the organization of the seventh regiment I shall take the recruits to fill up the regiments from Missouri in the field. I propose to semi General Pile into the field, as he will have little further to do, and the senior field officer of the seventh regiment can superintend the service. General Thomas Ewing, jr., is raising a regiment in Missouri at large ; has about 200 men. I am decidedly of opinion that but one regiment should be in process of formation at the same time. Either give all the recruits to General Ewing or transfer his men to t he seventh regiment. In Middle and East. Tennessee we have the following colored troops: At Nashville there are the Fifteent h ami Seventeenth Regiments, fully organized, reporting to the chief quartermaster for labor in his department. Also the One hundredth Regiment, organized from Kentucky recruits, fully; also two companies of the Fortieth Regiment, which *'ill probably be ordered to East Tennessee to fill the regiment there. Also Meigs' Light Battery A, Second U. S. Colored Art illery. Also o companies of an organized regiment in the Tenth U. S. Colored Pon line of the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad Eurl"?i ""?Uth aniting officers especially harsh. Far better to 11 K??"SERIES UI, VOL IV WAR OF THE REBELLION, OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, published by The National Historical Society, Gettysburg, PA, 1892, Series III, Vol. IV, Serial No. 125, page 433 24 - (2542)