Organization and Status of Missouri Troops, Union and Confederate, in Service During the Civil War #260878

Now, therefore, 1, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought. Fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.