1862 CIVIL War Militia Draft Regulations General Orders 99 Lincoln Rare Historic

  

1862 CIVIL WAR MILITIA DRAFT REGULATIONS GENERAL ORDERS 99 LINCOLN RARE HISTORIC. Regulations for the Enrollment and Draft of Three Hundred Thousand Militia.

United States War Department, Adjutant General's Office (Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General). War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. 1862 (dated August 9, 1862). Original 1862 government printing, self-wrappers. Original Civil War general order issued from the War Department, Adjutant General's Office in Washington, D.

Dated August 9, 1862 and headed General Orders, No. This circular was printed just days after President Abraham Lincoln's August 4, 1862 call for a draft of 300,000 militia to serve for nine months and sets out the detailed rules under which the Secretary of War directed state governors to meet their quotas and conduct the draft across the Union. The text opens by reciting the President's order and then proceeds through numbered regulations. Governors are instructed to furnish their assigned quotas of the three hundred thousand militia, to designate rendezvous points and commandants for each state, and to arrange for the immediate enrollment of all able-bodied male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five.

Subsequent paragraphs describe how commissioners are to be appointed in each county to supervise the drafting process, hear exemption claims, and conduct the drawing of names by lot in a manner similar to jury selection, with ballots placed in a wheel or box and drawn out blindfold. The order stresses that exemptions for disability must be based on a permanent incapacity certified by a surgeon appointed by the governor. Section 7 contains the controversial provision allowing a drafted man to furnish a substitute who agrees to assume his place at the rendezvous, a clause that became an important flashpoint in Civil War draft politics and was widely criticized at the time as favoring those who could afford to pay for substitutes. This order quickly became one of the foundational federal documents on Civil War conscription, widely reprinted in newspapers and later cited in legal cases and state adjutant general reports as states built their draft machinery and compiled enrollment lists of eligible men. It is attributed in type to Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas acting "by order of the Secretary of War, " and is today recorded in major institutional Civil War collections under the corporate author United States.

Adjutant-General's Office, often bound together with other 1862 War Department general orders. Surviving separate printings like this self-wrapped circular are scarce on the market, making it an appealing piece for collectors of Civil War conscription, Lincoln-era federal administration, and original Union Army documentation. Single folded sheet forming four pages (three pages printed, final page blank), in self-wrappers with no separate covers, as issued.

The paper shows light to moderate general toning, with some slightly darker age toning toward the outer margins and along the old vertical fold that runs through all four pages. There are a few scattered small smudges and faint spots of surface soil, the occasional tiny foxing fleck, and some light ghosting/offsetting of the printed text onto the blank rear panel from long-term storage in the folded state.

The inner opening remains clean and legible, with the type impression still sharp and the small type surprisingly easy to read. Old pencil notations appear at the upper right of the front panel (including a light penciled number) and at the upper right of the blank verso ("Printed order 1862"), but there are no modern owner stamps, institutional markings, underlining, or highlighting. The sheet remains supple for its age, with only minor surface cracking and a couple of tiny splits along the fold, and no obvious repairs or reinforcement. Make sure to see the photos above for complete details. Measures approximately 7 1/4 inches tall by 4 1/2 inches wide. Civil War, American Civil War, 1862 Civil War, Union Army, United States War Department, United States Adjutant General's Office, Lorenzo Thomas, Edwin M. Stanton, Abraham Lincoln, General Orders No.

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