BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
(Calling for 300,000 volunteers.)
Whereas, by the act
approved July 4, 1864, entitled "An act further to regulate and provide
for the enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other
purposes," it is provided that the President of the United States may, “at
his discretion, at any time hereafter, call for any number of men, as
volunteers, for the respective terms of one, two, and three years, for 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 any county not
so subdivided, shall not be filled within the space of fifty days after such
call, then the President shall 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 the act of Congress on the call for five
hundred thousand men, made July 18th, 1864, the number of men to be obtained
under that call 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 them their full quotas of troops under said call;
And whereas, from
the foregoing causes, but two hundred and forty thousand men have been put into
the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps under the said call of July 18, 1864, leaving
a deficiency on that call of two hundred and sixty thousand (260,000):
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 my call for three hundred
thousand (300,000) 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 Bureau of the Provost-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 any
county not so subdivided, shall not be filled” before the fifteenth day of
February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, then a draft shall be made to fill
such quota, or any part thereof, under this call, which may be unfilled on said
fifteenth 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-four, and of the independence of the United
States the eighty-ninth.
[L. S.]
By the President:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.
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* Under this call
the quotas and credits were as follows, the first number indicating the quota
and the second the number of men furnished: Maine, 8,389; 6,926. New Hampshire,
2,072; 1,304. Vermont, 1,832; 1,550. Massachusetts, 1,306; 3,929. Rhode Island,
1,459; 1,563. Connecticut (no quota); 1,325. New York, 61,076; 34,183. New
Jersey, 11,695; 11,268. Pennsylvania, 46,437; 30,817. Delaware, 938; 411. Maryland,
9,142; 4,941. District of Columbia, 2,222; 822. West Virginia, 4,431; 2,537.
Kentucky, 10,481; 7,603. Ohio, 26,027; 24,567. Michigan, 10,026; 7,842.
Indiana, 22,582; 23,214. Illinois, 32,902; 28,318. Missouri, 13,984; 4,207.
Wisconsin, 12,356; 9,921. Iowa (no quota); 854. Minnesota, 3,636; 2,769.
Kansas, 1,222; 881. Making a grand total of 211,752 men furnished. Of these
there were for one year, 151,363; two years, 5,110; three years, 54,967; four
years, 312.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies,
Series III, Volume 4 (Serial No. 125), p. 1002-3
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