Executive Order
08/06/1861
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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...
The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...
while I can not order as within requested, allow me to say that it is my wish for you to relieve the people from all bur...
The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...