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.

STATE PAPERS OF ABRAN AMN LINCOLN. 545
First-The new enlistments in the navy;
Second-The casualties of battle, sickness; prisoners, and desertion; and
Third-The hundred-days troops and all others. going out by expiration of service this fall.
One hundred thousand new troops promptly furnished are all that
General Grant asks for the capture of Richmond and to give a finishing
blow to the rebel armies yet in the field. The residue of the call would
be adequate for garrisons in forts and to guard all the lines of communication and supply, free the country fiom guerrillas, give security to trade,
protect commerce and travel, and re-establish peace, order, and tranquillity
in every State. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
This close of General Sherman's campaign was greeted
with the greatest exultation by all the people, and they
heartily responded to the recommendations of the Thanksgiving Proclamation, which the President at once issued,
and joined heartily in the thanks which he gave in the
name of the nation to officers and men, and rejoiced in the
salutes of one hundred guns which he ordered to be fired
everywhere.
This proclamation and the orders issued were as fol'lows:ExrzcTrrI MAXsIOX, WARHINGTOX CITY, September 8, 1864.
The signal success that Divine Prosvidence has recently vouchsafed to
the operations of the United States fleet and army in the harbor of Mobile, and the reduction of Fort Powell, Fort Gaines, and Fort Morgan, and
the glorious achievements of the army under Major-General Sherman, in
the State of Georgia, resulting in the capture of tile city of Atlanta, call
for devout acknowledgment to the Supreme Being in whose hands are
the destinies of nations. It is therefore requested that on next Sunday, in
all places of worship in the United States, thanksgivings be offered to Him
for His mercy in preserving our national existence against the insurgent
rebels who have been waging a cruel war against the Government of the
United States for its overthrow, and also that prayer be made for Divine
protection to our brave soldiers and their leaders in the field who have
so often and so gallantly perilled their lives in battling with the enemy,
and for bTessings and comfort from the Father of mercies to the sick,
wounded, and prisoners, and to the orphans and widows of those who
have fallen in the service of their country, and that He will continue to
uphold the Government of the United States against all the efforts of
public enemies and secret foes.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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