Annual Report (or Report) of the Secretary of War, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1865 |
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২৩ acute disease anchylosis army atrophy Bladder boards of enrolment Bones of face bounty bureau Chest chronic disease cicatrices congressional districts Connecticut crystalline lens cutaneous contraction defects or deformities deserters Discharged diseases and disabilities distinct diseases double femoral double inguinal draft duty enlisted enrolment act Epispadia exempted per 1,000 Eyelids Fifth district Fingers of right fistula furnished Hampshire Hemorrhoids Hernia hundred Hydrocele Hypospadia Illinois Indiana integumentary system Iowa Jersey Joints Kansas Limb loss of sight March Massachusetts Michigan military service Minnesota Missouri muscular contraction mustered National Bank organic disease Ozæna paid Paralysis partial loss Pennsylvania permanent defects persons prolapsus Provost Marshal quotas ratio exempted ratio rejected recruits regiments Rhode Island Sarcocele Scrofula Second district serious permanent disease Spine stricture substitutes Syphilis TABLE Testicles Third district Tongue Torticollis total number examined total number exempted troops Tumors United Urethra urinary varicose veins volunteers West Virginia Wisconsin Wounds York
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Page 62 - That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...
Page 60 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due ; and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service.
Page 27 - An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes...
Page 61 - ... against the laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful...
Page 61 - ... approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the Government of the United States ; and...
Page 62 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states...
Page 62 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 34 - ... drafted or mustered or enlisted in or belonging to the land or naval forces of the United States, or as deserters therefrom, or otherwise amenable to military law or...
Page 33 - States, has any right to interfere with him, or to require him to be brought before them. And if the authority of a State, in the form of judicial process or otherwise, should attempt to control the marshal or other authorized officer or agent of the United States, in any respect, in the custody of his prisoner, it would be his duty to resist it, and to call to his aid any force that might be necessary to maintain the authority of law against illegal interference.
Page 34 - President the public safety does require that the privilege of the said writ shall now be suspended throughout the United States in the cases where, by the authority of the President of the United States, military, naval and civil officers of the United States or any of them hold persons under their command or in their custody either as prisoners of war, spies, or aiders or abettors of the enemy; or officers, soldiers or seamen enrolled or drafted or mustered or enlisted in or belonging to the land...