Letter to James C. Conkling
08/25/1863
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I do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within sixty days from the date of this proclamation, viz, on or b...
Provost-marshals and marshals of the United States will arrest and commit to military custody all such offenders as shal...
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it...