"on the 1st day of January, A. D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
"Ordered, That the general-in-chief, Major-General Halleck, immediately commence, and proceed with all possible despatch; to organize an army, for active operations, from all the material within and co..."
"By direction of the President, all the clerks and employees of the civil Departments and all the employees on the public buildings in Washington will be immediately organized into companies, under the..."
"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
"If the old regiments should not be filled up by volunteers before the 1st day of September, a special draft will be ordered for the deficiency."
"The draft for 300,000 militia called for by the President will be made on Wednesday, the 3d day of September, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p.m., and continue from day to day between the same hou..."
"No citizen liable to be drafted into the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country."
"The writ of habeas corpus is hereby suspended in respect to all persons so arrested and detained."
"All marshals, deputy marshals, and military officers of the United States are directed to arrest and detain any person or persons about to depart from the United States in violation of this order."
"Any person liable to draft who shall absent himself from his county or State before such draft is made will be arrested."