Executive Order
02/17/1862
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Whereas complaints are made in some localities respecting the assignments of quotas and credits allowed for the pending ...
The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...