Executive Order
08/07/1862
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Be pleased to signify this to the respective Houses of Congress.
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The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...
He has gone in again at Savannah, and I propose three cheers for his coming out gloriously.