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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

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Auction Date:2012 Jun 20 @ 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 DS as president, one page, 7.25 x 9.75, June 30, 1863. Lincoln signs an order requesting more troops from the state of Connecticut. In part: “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 Connecticut, and the period of service of said volunteers and militia since the commencements of the present rebellion, in order to equalize the numbers among the Districts of the said States, and having considered and allowed for the number already furnished as aforesaid, and the time of their service aforesaid, do hereby assign Two Thousand One Hundred and Sixty Two as the first proportional part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the First District of the Connecticut under this, the first call made by me on the State of Connecticut, 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 Connecticut for the number of men herein assigned to said District, and Fifty Percent in addition.” A few intersecting folds, some creases and wrinkles, and scattered mild toning, mostly to edges and corners, otherwise fine condition.

The first effective draft by the federal government, signed into law by President Lincoln on March 3, 1863, called for all men between the ages of 18 and 45 to be enrolled into local militia units and be available to be called into national service. The actual draft was managed by the states, which most often used a lottery system. Not long after being signed into law, draft riots which lasted four days erupted in New York City and federal troops, including soldiers from Vermont, were called upon to restore order.

From July 1-2, veteran Connecticut soldiers fought at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg where the six units numbering 1268 men averaged a casualty rate of 26%, with the 17th and 20th Connecticut infantries losing almost 50% of their men. After Gettysburg, the Union army, for one of the first times during the Civil War, used draftees to fill the depleted ranks of existing companies instead of forming new companies. Among the beneficiaries of the Connecticut draft was the 14th Connecticut Infantry which later participated in the Union victories of the Overland Campaign, the Seige of Petersburg, and the Appomattox Campaign.
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