Gettysburg Address
11/18/1863
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Its observance will be strictly enforced by all officers, civil, military, and naval in the service of the United States...
He could not but congratulate all present, himself, the country and the whole world upon this great moral victory.
The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...
He thought this measure was a very fitting if not an indispensable adjunct to the winding up of the great difficulty.