Executive Order
02/17/1862
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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...
It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...
The expediency of sanctioning the acceptance of the gift is submitted to your consideration.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of...