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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

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Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Partly-printed war-dated DS as president, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, September 5, 1863. Lincoln calls out Ohio men for military service. In full, “I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, having taken into consideration the number of volunteers and militia furnished by and from the several States, including the State of Ohio, and the period of service of said volunteers and militia since the commencement of the present rebellion, in order to equalize the numbers among the Districts of said States, and having considered and allowed for the number already furnished as aforesaid, and the time of their service aforesaid, do hereby assign Eight Hundred and Nine as the first proportional part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the First District of the State of Ohio under this, the first call made by me on the State of Ohio, under the act approved March 3, 1863, entitled ‘An Act for Enrolling and calling out the National Forces, and for other purposes,’ and in pursuance of the act aforesaid, I order that a draft be made in the said First District of the State of Ohio, for the number of men herein assigned to said District, and fifty percent in addition.” Some light rubbing to bottom blank area from erased notations, and a mild block of toning from previous display, otherwise fine, clean condition.

The concept of conscription was controversial in the war-torn Union, with the Conscription Act requiring states to draft men to serve in the armed forces if individual states did not meet their enlistment quotas through volunteers. In June of 1863, nearly 1000 locals of Holmes County, Ohio, gathered to protest the act. Rallying around a fort consisting of four artillery pieces, the agitators engaged in a brief exchange with officials in an attempt to prevent enforcement of the draft, but after facing a mass of 420 Union troops sent to dismantle the offense, the agitators quickly fizzled away, the result of which earned the rebellion the title of, “Fort Fizzle.” Only one man was actually brought to trial and sentenced, and Lincoln pardoned him before his term was served. An exceptionally desirable and clean draft order, bearing a pristine signature.
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