E. Emery to Richard Yates

Peoria Daily Transcript,

Peoria, Ill., Sep 2 1864

Governor Yates

Dear Sir

This will be handed you by Lieut. Geo W Baker late of the 8th Missouri, who is raising a company for the "State Regiment." He intended reporting with his men but the Provost Marshal, being ordered away, he has a member whose papers are not ready, and some twenty-five coming in tomorrow from Marshall County to join. He has over fifty men, and with those to come in tomorrow, will I am quite sure, make up a full company which will be at Springfield Monday P.M. I sincerely hope you will hold a place for Baker's Company in the Regiment, as I am personally interested. You know it wont do for me to leave the transcript, and Baker is to be my substitute. Hence anything done for him is done for me. If there should be a better thing in the regiment

open, I presume he would not decline it.

After a weeks labor I have got my own man out of the draft, raising the full quota of nineteen men. The balance of the city is working like demons to get out. The Copperheads are ransacking the whole town for individuals & [abscriptians?] for counties to recruit & I telegraphed you today, by no means let any intimation be made that the draft is to be stopped, postponed or time extended. If Oakes could manage to get the right kind of a circular through the Associated Press Despatchers, it would add hundreds to the volunteering daily

Yours for the Union

E Emery

Emory, E

Peoria Sept 1st 64

Says that Capt Boaker has raised a company for the new regiment and will be in, with it on Monday. He hopes the Govr. will give it a place in Regt. as it interests him personally.

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