Letter from Andrew Curtin to S. G. Theud

Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin responds to S. G. [Theud's?]request about raising a new Pennsylvania volunteer regiment. While "I most heartily approve of the plan," Curtin notes that he "[does] not [have] the power to arm and equip a company" since Pennsylvania is "confined to the fifteen Regts now ready and ordered into service." Curtin also refers to "the war of defamation waged against me." Transcript included.