500,000 Men Wanted

Washington, Feb. 1. – It is ordered that a draft for Five Hundred Thousand men, to serve for three years or during the war, be made on the 10th day of March next, for the military service of the United States; crediting and deducting there from so many as have been enlisted or drafted into the service prior to the first day of March, and not heretofore credited.

Signed, Abraham Lincoln.

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, February 6, 1864