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Call for 75,000 Volunteers
THE proclamation of April 15 was issued, under authority of th February 28, 1795, the day after the fall of Fort Sumter. The cal governors of the States was made through the War Department. further call for 42,034 volunteers to serve for three years, together order for the increase of the regular army and the enlistment of sear issued, the action of the President being legalized by an act of Augus act of February 24, 1864, authorized the President to call whenever for such number of volunteers as might be required.
REFERENCES. Text in U.S. Statutes at Large, XII, 1258. Cor ence with the governors is in the War Records, Series III, Vol. I, p For comments of the press see Moore, Rebellion Record, I, 64–69 ments. See also Nicolay and Hay, Lincoln, I, 254-258.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERI
WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been, for sor past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obst in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, sippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerfu suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the powers vested in the marshals by law:
Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the tution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and he