Executive Order
12/21/1862
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Your having shown me Mr. Davis's letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am n...
Complaint is made to me, by Vermont, that the assignment of her quota for the draft on the pending call is intrinsically...
The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...
Now, in order to determine all controversies in respect thereto and to avoid any delay in filling up the armies, it is o...