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1p., plus integral blank. 4to (9-3/4x7-3/4 inches). The first military draft in U.S. history was passed by Congress in early 1863 and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in March of that year. The Enrollment Act (or Civil War Military Draft Act) required the enrollment of every male citizen between twenty and forty-five years of age, as well as those immigrants who had filed for citizenship, unless exempted by the Act. It set enlistment quotas for each state, and required states to draft men if they did not meet their enlistment quotas through volunteers. It also included the policies of substitution (furnishing a suitable substitute to take the draftee's place) and commutation (paying $300 to avoid the draft), which led to substantial resentment among working-class citizens not wealthy enough to pay their way out of service. Only July 13, during the draft lottery in New York City, a riot broke out, leading to three days of violence and destruction. Although initially focused on the draft, the protests subsequently devolved into vicious race riots. The rioters were largely white and in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, claimed to fear that freed enslaved men would migrate to the city and take their jobs. Since Blacks were exempted from the draft, the Draft Act only heightened fears of Black migration to the city. The violence against the Black community in New York (as well as against abolitionists) was substantial: the death toll reached upwards of 120, and numerous homes and churches were burned. Since most of the New York State Militia was fighting with Union troops at Gettysburg, the New York Police Department was the only force on hand to deal with the rioters initially, and they were badly outnumbered and underequipped. By day four of the riots, five New York Militia units had reached the city along with the 26th Michigan Volunteers and the 27th Indiana Volunteers, and were able to start restoring order. Eventually there were several thousand troops in the city and they brutally put down the remaining rioters. Almost immediately, calls came to suspend the draft in New York, most notably by Horatio Seymour, the Governor of New York, who wrote to Lincoln several times in the weeks which followed arguing against the constitutionality of the draft and the inequity in its application. Lincoln replied on August 7, refusing to acquiesce to Seymour's demands, writing: "I shall direct the draft to proceed in all the Districts, drawing however, at first, from each of the four Districts, towit: the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth . I do not object to abide a decision of the United States Supreme Court, or of the judges thereof, on the constitutionality of the draft law. In fact, I should be willing to facilitate the obtaining of it; but I can not consent to lose the time while it is being obtained. We are contending with an enemy who, as I understand, drives every able bodied man he can reach, into his ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter-pen. No time is wasted, no argument is used. This produces an army which will soon turn upon our now victorious soldiers already in the field, if they shall not be sustained by recruits, as they should be. It produces an army with a rapidity not to be matched on our side, if we first waste time to re-experiment with the volunteer system, already deemed by congress, and palpably, in fact, so far exhausted, as to be inadequate; and then more time, to obtain a court decision, as to whether a law is constitutional, which requires a part of those not now in the service, to go to the aid of those who are already in it; and still more time, to determine with absolute certainty, that we get those, who are to go, in the precisely legal proportion, to those who are not to go. My purpose is to be, in my action, just and constitutional; and yet practical, in performing the important duty, with which I am charged, of maintaining the unity, and the free principles of our common country" (Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 6.). Three days later, on August 10, Lincoln signed the present order to resume the draft in the Second Congressional district of New York, the western portion of Long Island, primarily Nassau County and part of Queens County. This is the first draft order following his refusal to Governor Seymour to suspend the draft in the New York City area. In full (manuscript accomplishments in brackets): "I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, having taken into consideration the number of volunteers and militia furnished by and from the several States, including the State [New York], and the period of service of said volunteers and militia since the commencement of the present rebellion, in order to equalize the numbers among the Districts of the said States, and having considered and allowed for the number already furnished as aforesaid, and the time of their service aforesaid, do hereby assign [Two Thousand and Fifty (2050)] as the first proportional part of the quota of troops to be furnished by the [2nd]District of the State of [New York] under this, the first call made by me on the State of [New York], under the act approved March 3, 1863, entitled 'An Act for Enrolling and Calling our the National Forces, and for other purposes,' and, in pursuance of the act aforesaid, I order that a draft be made in the said [2nd] District of the State of [New York] for the number of men herein assigned to said District." On the same day as this order, Lincoln would meet with Frederick Douglass at the White House to discuss his traveling through the south to recruit former slaves to fight for the Union. An extraordinary Lincoln document at a turning point moment in the Civil War. Minor smudging to signature. Housed in a blue full morocco box 1p., plus integral blank. 4to (9-3/4x7-3/4 inches).

A military appointment signed by Abraham Lincoln at the height of the American Civil War. Such documents were instruments of authority and means of identification as soldiers crossed through military lines and took command. The document appoints James Gillette to the position of "Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers, with the rank of Captain". James Gillette (1838-81) enlisted as a private and rose quickly through the ranks. He served as Commissary of Subsistence for the 2nd Division, XII Corps under General John W. Geary. For his meritorious service, he was breveted lieutenant colonel, U.S. Volunteers, and for gallantry at the battle of Chancellorsville, he was breveted major in the regular Army. A week earlier, on 3 March, Lincoln signed the Conscription Act, mandating the impressment of able-bodied young men into the service of the Union Army. A clause allowing for exemption by paying a fee provoked national fury, leading to riots in New York. Engraved military appointment (415 x 340 mm), on vellum with the sections accomplished in manuscript, attractive cartouche of the American eagle at the head and large trophy of arms at the foot engraved by J. V. N. and O. H. Throop, blue wafer seal at left, War Department docketing notations at upper left. Mounted and framed with UV conservation glazing (framed size 64 x 53 cm). Originally folded into sixths leaving light creases as usual. Slightly discoloured at extremities, ink a little faded but still clear. In very good condition.

Etat : Very Good. First Edition. One partially printed vellum leaf dated February 21, 1863, of the appointment of James Alden Jr. as a Captain in the Navy. Signed by President Abraham Lincoln and the Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles. Orange embossed seal of the Department of the Navy to bottom. Previous owner's repair to upper right corner (see image). Loses at folds (see image). James Alden Jr. had an impressive career in the United States Navy having been appointed by Lincoln in aiding to split the Confederacy apart along the Mississippi River, ultimately helping in the Battle of Vicksburg. Alden, whose direct descendant came to America on the Mayflower, assisted in the Mexican-American War before joining the Union during the Civil War. The paper measures approximately 14.5 x 17.75 in (37 x 45 cm).

LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. Washington, January 22, 1862. One leaf, 17 by 13 inches, printed on one side and finished by hand, with embossed seal. Matted and framed, entire piece measures 23 by 19 inches. $21,000.Civil-War era document signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of State William Henry Seward, appointing George S. Gideon to be the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia.The document reads, in part: "The President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents greeting. Know ye, that, reposing special trust and confidence in the abilities & integrity of George S. Gideon, of Washington City, D.C., I have nominated and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him to be a Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia; and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfil the duties of that Office according to Law, and to have and to hold the said Office, with all the power, privileges and emoluments thereunto of right appertaining unto him the said George S. Gideon for the term of three years from the day of the date hereon, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President of the United StatesÉ Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the eighty-sixth. By the President: [signed] Abraham Lincoln. [signed] William H. Seward [printed] Secretary of State." There was a George S. Gideon who owned a printing and bookbinding firm that operated its business in DC, including printing the Official Registers of the United States from 1843 to 1851, and who corresponded with Lincoln. Gideon was also an avid sponsor of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad, and served as president of the railroad from 1862 to 1866, the time when presumably he would have been very busy serving out the present commissionÑunless he turned down the commission, or the position was more of a sinecure.Faint fold lines, embossed seal intact. Lincoln's signature bold. A fine signed document. Signed.

Etat : Very Good. One partly-printed military commisssion on vellum signed by Lincoln as president and countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War dated May 16th, 1863. The document commissions Benjamin H. Geary as Second Lieutenant to the 13th Infantry Regiment on August 13th, 1862. Accession note to top left. The document measures 14.75 x 19.5 in.

445 x 565 mm. (17 3/4 x 22 1/2"). 17 lines of engraved text in copperplate script, with names and dates completed in a fine secretarial hand. Loose, as issued, in an archival mylar sleeve. âNeatly mended two-and-three-quarters-inch tear to one edge (well away from text), half inch slit to end of one fold, three very short separations along two folds (only one touching text), otherwise A FINE FRESH, SPECIMEN, clean and bright, the signature dark and clear, the wax-and-white-paper seal intact. This is an excellent example of a presidential document with Lincoln's full signature and with that of his Secretary of State, William Henry Seward (1801-72), remembered for negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The consul appointed in this document, Jay Haziel Sherman of Vermont, served in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 1861 to 1865. It is likely this appointee was Jahaziel Blossom Sherman (1801-65), son of pioneering steamship captain Jahaziel Sherman (1770-1844), and that his unusual Old Testament name was misspelled by the scribe who filled in the appointment form. The younger Sherman died in Nova Scotia in 1865.

No Binding. Etat : Very Good. ("Abraham Lincoln"), in black ink, Washington, February 10, 1862. Folio. Partially printed document on vellum accomplished in a secretarial hand. Blue wafer seal intact. Lincoln's signature is dark. Appointment of Ethan A[llen] Hitchcock to the rank of Major General of Volunteers. Boldly co-signed by Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, and Adjutant General L. Thomas (a few small holes at the folds, else fine, fresh and dark). Lincoln (1809-65), 16th President of the United States (1861-65) and one of the most important figures in American history. Hitchcock (1798-1870), Graduated West Point in 1817; served in Florida war; later with Winfield Scott in Mexico. He was commissioned Major-General of Volunteers (as per this document) in 1862 and rendered many valuable services to Lincoln's administration and the Union Army (see Basler's Lincoln for numerous references to him). Signed by Author(s).