Abraham Lincoln said...

The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...

Its observance will be strictly enforced by all officers, civil, military, and naval in the service of the United States...

The Secretary of War shall assign to the said commissioners such aid and assistance as may be required for the performan...

In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have compl...