Executive Order
07/03/1863
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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...
Sherman went in at Atlanta and came out right.
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
Let nothing which is transpiring change, hinder, or delay your military movements or plans.