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...
Any officer or private whose health permits him to visit watering places or places of amusement, or to make social visits or walk about the ...
All officers and privates fit for duty absent at that time will be regarded as absent without cause, their pay will be stopped, and they dis...
All leaves of absence and furloughs, by whomsoever given, unless by the War Department, are revoked and absolutely annulled.
No officer shall be restored to his rank unless by the judgment of a court of inquiry, to be approved by the President, he shall establish t...
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth sectio...
that while property may be destroyed for proper military objects, none shall be destroyed in wantonness of malice.
