The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

538 THE LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICES, AND
that the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus so proclaimed in the said proclamation of the 15th of September, 1863, be made
effectual and be duly enforced in and throughout the said State of Kentucky, and that nmartial law be for the present declared therein. I do
therefore hereby require of the military officers in the said State that the
privilege of the hlabeas corpus be effectually suspended within the said
State, according to the aforesaid proclamation, and that martial law be
established therein to take effect from the date of this proclamation, the
said suspension and establishment of martial law to continue until this
proclamation shall be revoked or modified, but not beyond the period
when the said rebellion shall have been suppressed or come to an end.
And I do hereby require and command, as well as military officers, all
civil officers and authorities existing or found within the said State of Kentucky, to take notice of this proclamation and to give full effect to the
same. The martial laws herein proclaimed and the things in that respect
herein ordered will not be deemed or taken to interfere with the holding
of lawful elections, or with the proceedings of the constitutional Legislature of Kentucky, or with the administration of justice in the courts of
law existing therein between citizens of the United States in suits or proceedings which do not affect the military operations or the constituted
authorities of the Government of the United States.
In testimony 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 5th day of July, in the year
[L. S.] of our Lord 1864, and of the independence of the United States
the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LrNOOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
While the loyal States were thus engaged in repelling
rebel raids and strengthening the armies, General Sherman continued his victorious campaign. His assault upon
Kenesaw was a failure, because-of the strength of the rebel
works; but a repetition of the flanking system drove
Johnston out of them across the Chattahoochee, which
our army crossed on the 11th of July. By a movement
of his left wing, General Sherman at once seized Decatur,
only six miles from Atlanta, and severed the railroad between Atlanta and Augusta, by which time the dissatisfaction, which had been felt in rebeldom with Johnston's
continued falling back, culminated in his removal on the
17th of J uly, and the appointment of General Hood in his