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...
Be pleased to signify this to the respective Houses of Congress.
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.