Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"Ordered, That the general-in-chief, Major-General Halleck, immediately commence, and proceed with all possible despatch; to organize an army, for active operations, from all the material within and co..."

"By direction of the President, all the clerks and employees of the civil Departments and all the employees on the public buildings in Washington will be immediately organized into companies, under the..."

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."

"If the old regiments should not be filled up by volunteers before the 1st day of September, a special draft will be ordered for the deficiency."