Fourth Annual Message
12/05/1864
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Now, in order to determine all controversies in respect thereto and to avoid any delay in filling up the armies, it is o...
I herewith transmit to Congress a report, dated 1st instant, with the accompanying papers, received from the Secretary o...
The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...
of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indic...