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 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 639
three years of military service; and that in case the quota or any part
thereof of any town, township, ward of a city, precinct, or election district,
or of a county not so subdivided, shall not be filled within the space of
fifty days after such call, the President slhall immediately order a draft
for one year to fill such quota, or any part thereof which may be unfilled; and whereas by the credits allowed in accordance with act of Congress on the call for five hundred thousand inen made July 18, 1864,
the number of men to be obtained was reduced to two hundred and
eighty thousand; and whereas the operations of the enemy in certain
States have rendered it impracticable to procure from theln their full
quotas of troops under said call; and whereas, from the foregoing causes,
but two hundred and fifty thousand men have been put into the army, navy,
and marine corps under the said call of July 18, 1864, leaving a deficiency
under the said call of two huhdred and sixty tloulsand: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, in
order to supply the aforesaid deficiency, and to provide for casualties
in the military and naval service of the United States, do issue this mny
call for three hundred thousand volunteers, to serve for one, two, or three
years.
The quotas of the States, districts, and sub-districts, under this call,
will be assigned by the War Department through the Provot-Marshal
General of the United States: and in case the quota, or any part thereof,
of any town, township, ward of a city, precinct or election district, or of
a county not so sub-divided, shall not be filled before tle 15th day of
February, 1865, then a draft shall be made to fill such quota, or any part
thereof, under this call, which may be unfilled on the said 15th day of
February, 1865.
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 nineteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty[L. B.] four, and of the independence of the United States the eightyninth. ABi mtAM LINCOLN.
By the President: WaM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of Stte,.
Operations in the field continued to meet with great success. General Sherman, after an almost unobstructed march
across the State of Georgia, burst through to the sea by
the capture, on December 13th, of Fort McAllister, on the
Ogeechee River,.whose fall openled colllmunications for
him with the fleet. Operations to assist him by an attack
upon the line of railroad from Savannah to Charleston,
had succeeded in retaining a heavy force of the rebels
there, although there seems to have been little effort to