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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Call for troops from Ohio

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00158 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Document signed Date: 05 September 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.75 cm, Width: 19.75 cm Order a Copy

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."

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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