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[1] ADfS, DLC-RTL; LS, owned by Mrs. Henry C. Adams, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. No letter from Green Adams has been found to which this can be a reply. The probability is that Adams presented his request in person. An act approved on February 7, 1863, authorized the Governor of Kentucky to raise a force of 20,000 twelve-months volunteers to serve in Kentucky, with discretion of the president to use them outside the state.
[2] This reference may be explained by Horatio G. Wright's communication to Halleck of December 30, 1862, ``I have information, on which I am inclined to rely, that in case the President issues his proclamation . . . on the 1st proximo, the Legislature of Kentucky, which meets on Monday next, will legislate the State out of the Union, and that the Governor's message will favor such action; also that the court of appeals has a disloyal majority, and will reverse all judgments of loyal inferior courts against rebels. . . .'' (OR, I, XX, II, 282).