. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A —THE ENROLLMENT AND THE DRAFT. BY JOHN G. NICOLAV AND JOHN HAY, PRIVATE SECRETARIES TO THE RETALIATION. HE policy of antiing theblacks having been offi-cially announced in the finalEmancipation Proclama-tion of January i, 1863,steps were taken as rapidlyas the nature of the case])ermitted to put the planinto practical execution. Mr. Lincoln not onlywatched these efforts with great interest, butfrom time to time personally wrote letters toseveral of his commanders urging them to activeeffort
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A —THE ENROLLMENT AND THE DRAFT. BY JOHN G. NICOLAV AND JOHN HAY, PRIVATE SECRETARIES TO THE RETALIATION. HE policy of antiing theblacks having been offi-cially announced in the finalEmancipation Proclama-tion of January i, 1863,steps were taken as rapidlyas the nature of the case])ermitted to put the planinto practical execution. Mr. Lincoln not onlywatched these efforts with great interest, butfrom time to time personally wrote letters toseveral of his commanders urging them to activeefforts in organizing negro regiments. If a singleargument were needed to point out his greatpractical wisdom in the management of thisdifficult question, that argument is found inthe mere summing up of its tangible militaryresults. We have seen that at the beginning of De-cember, 1863, less than a year after the Presi-dent first proclaimed the policy, he was able toannounce in his annual message that about fiftythousand men formerly slaves were then actual-ly bearing arms in the ranks of the Union report made by the Secretary of War onApril 2, 1864, shows that the number of negrotroop
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