To RH Milroy From RH Milroy May 28 1861

              Presidents order                           May 28 


 
Accepts the six Regiments of these 
months men in Indiana with service 
for the War – the whole, of any of 
them, on the following conditions: 


   No officer or private is held under 
obligations to make the change. 


     No Regiment to be received where 
more than one fifth of their number 
decline, of who do not muster four 
fifths of a full Regiment when offered 
to Gen McClellan for acceptance. 


   Where more than one fifth decline, 
the Regiment remains in the three 
months service till the end of the term. 


   Where less than one fifth decline 
those declining are to be paid & discharged, 
& their places filled by recruits as soon as 
possible, the Regiment to be accepted when 
four fifths full.

 
   The President added that if more 
than one fifth decline their places can be 
filled by substitutes before the propper of the 
Regiment is made, so as to have at least a 
Regiment four fifth’s full when entered for the War. He said this was of 
course understood; & he would have put this in 
writing had he thought it necessary.