A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 6, part 1: Abraham Lincoln
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 6, part 1: Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents -- United States; United States -- History -- Sources; United States -- Politics and government
ISRAEL WASHBURN, Jr., Governor of Maine; H.S. BERRY, Governor of
New Hampshire; FREDERICK HOLBROOK, Governor of Vermont; WILLIAM A.
BUCKINGHAM, Governor of Connecticut; E.D. MORGAN, Governor of New
York; CHARLES S. OLDEN, Governor of New Jersey; A.G. CURTIN, Governor
of Pennsylvania; A.W. BRADFORD, Governor of Maryland, F.H. PEIRPOINT,
Governor of Virginia; AUSTIN BLAIR, Governor of Michigan; J.B. TEMPLE,
President Military Board of Kentucky; ANDREW JOHNSON, Governor of
Tennessee; H.R. GAMBLE, Governor of Missouri; O.P. MORTON, Governor
of Indiana; DAVID TODD, Governor of Ohio; ALEXANDER RAMSEY, Governor
of Minnesota; RICHARD YATES, Governor of Illinois; EDWARD SALOMON,
Governor of Wisconsin.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
_Washington, July 1, 1862_.
Gentlemen: Fully concurring in the wisdom of the views expressed to me
in so patriotic a manner by you in the communication of the 28th day of
June, I have decided to call into the service an additional force of
300,000 men. I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly
of infantry. The quota of your State would be ------. I trust that they
may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and
injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion. An order
fixing the quotas of the respective States will be issued by the War
Department to-morrow.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
_Washington, July 11, 1862_.
_Ordered_, That Major-General Henry W. Halleck be assigned to command
the whole land forces of the United States as General in Chief, and that
he repair to this capital as soon as he can with safety to the positions
and operations within the department under his charge.
A. LINCOLN.
Whereas, in the judgment of the President, the public safety does
require that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch
of the Pacific Railroad in the State of Missouri be repaired, extended,
and completed from Rolla to Lebanon, in the direction to Springfield, in
the said State, the same being necessary to the successful and
economical conduct of the war and to the maintenance of the authority of
the Government in the Southwest:
Therefore, under and in virtue of the act of Congress entitled "An act
to authorize the President of the United States in certain cases to take
possession of railroad and telegraph lines, and for other purposes,"
approved January 31, 1862, it is--
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