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Collection Reference Number GLC00158
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1863 
Title Lincoln's Call for troops from Ohio
Date 5 September 1863
Author Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)  
Document Type Military document; Government document
Content Description First call on Ohio. Assigns "six hundred and fifty-three as the first proportional part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the Eighteenth district of the state." Call made in accordance with the 3 March 1863 "An act for Enrolling and Calling out the National Forces and for other purposes."
Subjects Recruitment  Conscription  Union Forces  President  Military History  Civil War  
People Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme The American Civil War; Government & Politics; The Presidency
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945