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 APPENDIX. 733 Done at the city of Washington, this eighth day of May, in the year of [L. s.] our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: Wmmau H. Snwann, Secretary of State. No. 5. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: J¤¤¤15.1863· A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, the armed insurrectionary combinations now existin in several Preamble. of the states are threatening to make inroads into the States otg Maryland, Western Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, requiring immediately an additional military force for the service of the United States: Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM Lmoonn, President of the United States and bne hundred Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, and of the militia of '*hH“g“!‘d m'h*'“ the several states when called into actual service, do hereby call into the ser- $,?c:fo;"£:°°r` vice of the United States one hundred thousand militia from the states fol- m0n[hg,unlggg' lowing, namely: from the State of Maryland, ten thousand; from the State of &c., from- Pennsylvania, fifty thousand; from the State of Ohio, thirty thousand; from the M°·*'Yl’*¤d·, State of West Virginia, ten thousand, to be mustered into the service of the gf3g“Y1v"“*" United States forthwith, and to serve for the period of six months from the date wwf vgrginga of such muster into said service, unless sooner dischar ed; to be mustered in How to be as intantry, artillery, und cavalry, in proportions whicii will be made known mustered through the War Department, which de artment will also designate the several d Pl*’·"°‘ °h`°“' places of rendezvous. These militia, to he organized according to the rules and e{I:$;_gau,z8d_ regulations of the volunteer service and such orders as may hereafter be issued. Smeg w bg The states aforesaid will be respectively credited under the enrolment act for credited. the militia services rendered under this proclamation. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. _ Done at the city of Washington this fifteenth day of June, in the year [L. s.] of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eight —seventh. AIIYRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: Wrnuaiu H. Snwann, Secretary of State. No. 6. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: July 15, 186:;. A PROCLAMATION. IT has leased Almivht Ciorl tdhearken to the su plications and ra ers of ma M8_ an atliicteld people, and td, vouchsafe to the Army and the Navy of dhe Ilnited P m States victories on land and on the sea so signa. and so effective as to furnish reasonable grounds for augmented confidence that the Union of these states will be maintained, their Constitution preserved, and their peace and prosper1ty'permanently restored. But these victories have been accorded not without sacrn ces of life, limb, health, and liberty, incurred by brave, loyal, and patriotic citizens. Domestic affliction in every partof the country follows in the train of these fearful bereavements. It is meet and right to recognize and confess the presence of the Almighty Father and the power of His hand equally in these triumphs and in these sorrows v01.. xm. '1‘1zna·r.—62