Message to Congress
07/16/1862
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It winds the whole thing up.
The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...
He wished the reunion of all the States perfected and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the future;
In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have compl...