Form Draft Order1Jump to section
[June, 1863]
Executive Mansion,
Washington, D.C.,---, 1863.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, having
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
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- Title
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
- Author
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
- 1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln6. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Page 240
taken into consideration the number of volunteers and militia furnished by and from the several States, including the State of --- and the period of service of said volunteers and militia since the commencement of the present rebellion, in order to equalize the numbers among the districts of the said States, and having considered and allowed for the number already furnished as aforesaid, and the time of their services aforesaid, do hereby assign --- as the first proportional part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the --- district of the State of ---, under this, the first call made by me on the State of ---, under the act approved March 3, 1863, entitled, ``An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,'' and, in pursuance of the act aforesaid, I order that a draft be made in the said --- district of the State of ---, for the number of men herein assigned to said district, and 50 per cent. in addition.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this --- day of ---, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.
Annotation
[1] OR, III, V, 625. Numerous original signed copies of this printed order are extant. Each of these documents has the blanks properly filled in by a War Department clerk and bears Lincoln's full signature, ``Abraham Lincoln.'' The earliest extant order of which we have record is that for the Seventeenth District of Pennsylvania, dated June 23, 1863, and the latest is that for the Second District of Minnesota, dated September 24, 1863. These signed documents have not been reproduced individually in the following pages.
[2] Although the printed form was obviously prepared for use after July 4, 1863, a scrupulous War Department clerk was careful to correct the printed text to ``eighty-seventh'' for at least some of the orders issued prior to July 4. Such a one is the order for the Seventh District of Pennsylvania, July 1, 1863 (DS, owned by Foreman M. Lebold, Chicago, Illinois).