BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by the act
approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, 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 of [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,
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, the new
enrollment heretofore ordered is so far completed as that the aforementioned
act of Congress may now be put in operation for recruiting and keeping up the
strength of the armies in the field; for garrisons, and such military
operations as may be required for the purpose of suppressing the rebellion and
restoring the authority of the United States Government in the insurgent
States:
Now, therefore I,
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my call for five
hundred thousand volunteers for the military service; provided, nevertheless,
that this call shall be reduced by all credits which may be established under
section eight of the aforesaid act, on account of persons who have entered the
naval service during the present rebellion, and by credits for men furnished to
the military service in excess of calls heretofore made.*
Volunteers will be
accepted under this call for one, two, or three years, as they may elect, and
will be entitled to the bounty provided by the law for the period of service
for which they enlist.
And I hereby
proclaim, order, and direct that, immediately after the fifth day of September,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, being fifty days from the date of this call, a
draft for troops to serve for one year shall be had in every town, township,
ward of a city, precinct, or election district, or county not so subdivided, to
fill the quota which shall be assigned to it under this call, or any part
thereof which may be unfilled by volunteers on the said fifth day of September,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
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 eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States the
eighty-ninth.
By the President:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
Secretary of State.
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* Under this call
the quotas (reduced by excess of credits on previous calls) and credits were as
follows, the first number indicating the quota and the second the number of men
furnished: Maine, 11,116; 11,042. New Hampshire, 4,648; 5,973. Vermont, 2,665;
3,971. Massachusetts, 21,965; 31,739. Rhode Island, 1,423; 2,310. Connecticut,
5,583; 10,855. New York, 77,539; 83,838. New Jersey, 14,431; 15,108.
Pennsylvania, 49,993; 55,536. Delaware, 2,184; 2,175. Maryland, 10,947; 10,235.
District of Columbia, 2,386; 2,318. West Virginia, 2,717; 1,956. Kentucky,
9.871; 15,366. Ohio, 27,001; 30,823. Michigan, 12,098; 12,509. Indiana, 25,662;
25,854. Illinois, 21,997; 15,416. Missouri, 25,569; 23,507. Wisconsin, 17,590;
16,823. Iowa, 5,749; 4,223. Minnesota, 4,018; 3,235. Kansas (no quota), 351.
Making a grand total of 385,163 men furnished. Of these there were for one
year, 228,044; two years, 8,340; three years, 153,049; four years, 730.
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. 515-6
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