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Austin Groves Cemetery, 67-2 Summary Report, page 29
 766 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. artillery (heavy) for the defenso of Knoxville CU regiment of artillery, that he might retain control "?f%al T- *lah*a than if it were an infantry regiment. General 'I'iii 11 ' m"?r"?n>2h1* to this office by Major-General Grant, and the reauiidt?n Wa* refS designation obtained from the Colored Bureau. * h‘Hulhority?J Recruiting has been conducted there as here and money of the Boston committee. The regiment now th*. 1,700 men. A roster of officers is apjiended.* The N . o . al"?t ored Artillery (Heavy) was authorized by the Adjutant (• U,8>Col-February. Desires to fill up regiments already organirid er81 lvt recruiting for this until recently. A company has ibenn Clarksville, Tenn., and some 380 recruits sent from Ohio'Y^'1**1 w assigned to this command, tilling the battalion now which • bwn the command of Major GrosskopfT. w "?D|hr There are some men for the second battalion. Josiah V V • native Tennesseean, received permission in January last to • battery of light artillery at this place. This is Batter? A U. S. Colored Artillery (Light). The battery is full and iLwSJ stationed hero. It has but recently gotten horses. The lncn pretty well advanced in the school of t he piece and lmvo had n frr mounted drills. RECRUITING. I stated liefore that, no impressment had been allowed in rvernit in&_ _In February last. Adjutant-General Thomas authorized the impressment of negroes for military purposes. This, however,w ^po n..coun.tflrntandtfd. The present rules governing recruiting are that any loyal resident in Kentucky and ^ciines.-ve may put his slave into..ynice. and that any slavo desiring to enlist may be recruited Certificates. Forms No. 1 (Colored Bureau), are awarded whenever the owner desires. Frequent inquiries, by the way, are made as to the iwyment of the 8300 compensat ion. EXAMINING BOARD. As already stated, upon Major Stearns reporting here that an examining board had leeii in session at Stevenson, lar statement annexed shows their operations.* iie(j 10 The examining board at Nashville was originally trjCt of August, 1803, by General Gordon Granger, commanding the Cumberland, under orders from Major-General K"?**0 jejart-manding Department of the Cumberland. Subsequen ? inent commander assumed the control of it. . . _ foot'0 Brig. Gon. R. S. Granger; Colonel Lum, Tenth , yrojunt****' unteors; Colonel Stoughton, Eleventh Michigan roi- .nicn*'1*' Colonel Hull, Thirty-seventh Indiana Foot Voluntee . j .or pud4'?' Colonel Crane, Eighty-fifth Indiana Foot Volunteer;,i„r One hundred and fifth Illinois Foot Volunteers; Mrtjv (b ivostf! Ninth U. S. Colored Artillery; Captain Kranier, I*' ^pthCj vanla Cavalry Volunteers, and Capt. John O'Neil, b tIl0 Colored Infantry, have been, respectively, connects .jujorl'11 Of these Colonel Lum, Lieutenant-Colonel Crane, "? were for the longest time members of the Board.______??"" •Omitted. WAR OF THE REBElUON, OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE LWION ANO CONFEDERATE ARMES, published by The National HistoncS Sooety. Gettysburg. PA, 1892, Scots UL Vol. IV. Serial No. 125, page 766 29 - (2547)