Abraham Lincoln actually said...

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...

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.