Volume 7 — ORDER FOR A DRAFT OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN.
Reading edition
EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 1, 1864.
Ordered, That a draft of five hundred thousand (500,000) men, to serve for three years or during the war, be made on the tenth (10th) day of March next, for the military service of the United States, crediting and deducting therefrom so many as may have been enlisted or drafted into the service prior to the first (1st) day of March, and not before credited.
A. LINCOLN.