Summary:
This September, 1864, Union order issued by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton announces the commencement of a new round of the draft in Pennsylvania. It notifies department commanders, and asks them to assist to the best of their abilities.

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Maj.-Gen. DIX,
New York:

Washington, D. C.,

September 13, 1864.

The draft is ordered to commence in the State comprising your military department whose quota has not been filled up on Monday, the 19th of September. You will please hold yourself in readiness to render any aid to the drafting officers that may be needed.

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 3, Volume 4, Serial No. 125, Pages 715, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.