Not sure how else to explain this. A requisition or call means your command is about to be mustered into military service. When you leave home, you cannot return at the end of the day. Once called and mustered into service, a man will be paid for service and is expected to serve under released by discharge or other lawful means. Until called into service, volunteer militia were expected to be prepared to respond to a call. Until then, no service payments and no service discharges. Members were trained and ready, but ate supper at home and slept in their own beds at night. They did not expect to receive equipment for camp and field, which would be issued by a state quartermaster after a call or "requisition" from Governor Moore.

Pam will understand. It's like being a substitute teacher. You are qualified by the school district to serve as such, but not expected to appear in the classroom or receive pay for teaching class until actually called by a school authority.

Between Art Bergeron's list of State Volunteers and O R series I, volume 6, we have a good list of Louisiana militia commands called into service for defense of New Orleans. If further investigation is warranted, official calls will certainly appear in Governor Moore's correspondence.

For defense of New Orleans, Governor Moore desperately needed armed and trained volunteer militia. If the published correspondence of Benjamin Butler is accepted, Moore evidently remembered the LNG and despite being disenfranchised by the state legislature, he asked members to reorganize for potential service. BTW, If Moore had waited until Farragut's vessels were at the city docks to issue calls, it would have been too late.