By direction of the President, all the clerks and employees of the civil Departments and all the employees on the public buildings in Washin...
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
The draft for 300,000 militia called for by the President will be made on Wednesday, the 3d day of September, between the hours of 9 a. m. a...
If the old regiments should not be filled up by volunteers before the 1st day of September, a special draft will be ordered for the deficien...
All marshals, deputy marshals, and military officers of the United States are directed to arrest and detain any person or persons about to d...
No citizen liable to be drafted into the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country.
Any person liable to draft who shall absent himself from his county or State before such draft is made will be arrested.
The writ of habeas corpus is hereby suspended in respect to all persons so arrested and detained.
I say here, so far as I know, the Secretary of War has withheld no one thing at any time in my power to give him.
The only thing I think of just now not likely to be better said by some one else is a matter in which we have heard some other persons blame...
I occupy a position that enables me to believe that these two gentlemen are not nearly so deep in the quarrel as some presuming to be their ...
I believe he is a brave and able man, and I stand here, as justice requires me to do, to take upon myself what has been charged on the Secre...
I know General McClellan wishes to be successful, and I know he does not wish it any more than the Secretary of War for him, and both of the...
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
That a draft of 300,000 militia be immediately called into the service of the United States, to serve for nine months unless sooner discharg...
If any State shall not by the 15th of August furnish its quota of the additional 300,000 volunteers authorized by law the deficiency of volu...
Regulations will be prepared by the War Department and presented to the President with the object of securing the promotion of officers of t...
The only excuses allowed for the absence of officers or privates after the 11th day of August are: First. The order or leave of the War Depa...
