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d you not break him? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL R. C. SCHENCK. WAR DEPARTMENT, June 14, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL SCHENCK: Get General Milroy from Winchester to Harper's Ferry, if possible. He will be "gobbled up" if he remains, if he is not already past salvation. A. LINCOLN, President, United States. NEEDS NEW TIRES ON HIS CARRIAGE TELEGRAM TO MRS. LINCOLN. WAR DEPARTMENT, June 15, 1863. MRS. LINCOLN, Philadelphia, Pa.: Tolerably well. Have not rode out much yet, but have at last got new tires on the carriage wheels and perhaps shall ride out soon. A. LINCOLN. CALL FOR 100,000 MILITIA TO SERVE FOR SIX MONTHS, JUNE 15, 1863. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation Whereas the armed insurrectionary combinations now existing in several of the States are threatening to make inroads into the States of Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, requiring immediately an additional military force for the service of the United States: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof and of the militia of the several States when called into actual service, do hereby call into the service of the United States 100,000 militia from the States following, namely: From the State of Maryland, 10,000; from the State of Pennsylvania, 50,000; from the State of Ohio, 30,000; from the State of West Virginia, 10,000--to be mustered into the service of the United States forthwith and to serve for a period of six months from the date of such muster into said service, unless sooner discharged; to be mustered in as infantry, artillery, and cavalry, in proportions which will be made known through the War Department, which Department will also designate the several places of rendezvous. These militia to be organized according to the rules and regulations of the volunteer service and such orders as may hereafter be issued. The States aforesaid will be respectively credited under the enrollment act for the militia services entered under this proclamation. In testimony whereof............... A. LINCOLN TELEGRAM TO P. KAPP AND OTHERS. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 10, 1863 FREDERICK KAPP AND OTHERS, New York: The Governor of New York promises to send us troops, and if he wishes the assistance of General Fremont and General Sigel, one or both, he can have it.
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