Letter to William H. Herndon
03/05/1864
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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...
Your having shown me Mr. Davis's letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am n...
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
He could not but congratulate all present, himself, the country and the whole world upon this great moral victory.