Author: Abraham Lincoln
Date: 15/4/1861
Countries: United States of America
Topics: Secession Crisis, American Civil War
Description: A draft of Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation 80, calling up 75,000 militiamen for 3 month's service and calling Congress into an emergency session
Source: Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833 to 1916: Abraham Lincoln, Monday,Proclamation on State Militia. 1861. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mal0907400/.
Link:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/mal.0907400/?st=gallery
Source ID: 15