ARMY, UNITED STATES. 



and when a slave of a loyal master shall be drafted 

 and mustered into the service of the United States, 

 his master shall have a certificate thereof, and there- 

 upon such slave shall be free ; and the bounty of one 

 hundred dollars, now payable by law for each drafted 

 man, shall be paid to the person to whom such 

 drafted person was owing service or labor at the 

 time of his muster into the service of the United 

 States. The Secretary of War shall appoint a com- 

 mission in each of the slave States represented in 

 Congress, charged to award to each loyal person to 

 whom a colored volunteer may owe service a just 

 compensation, not exceeding three hundred dollars, 

 for each such colored volunteer, payable out of the 

 fund derived from commutation, and every such 

 colored volunteer on being mustered into the service 

 shall be free. And in all cases where men of color 

 have been heretofore enlisted or have volunteered in 

 the military service of the United States, all the pro- 

 visions of this act, so far as the payment of bounty 

 and compensation are provided, shall be equally 

 applicable as to those who may be hereafter recruited. 

 But men of color, drafted or enlisted, or who may 

 volunteer into the military service, while they shall 

 be credited on the quotas of the several States, or 

 subdivisions of States, wherein they are respectively 

 drafted, enlisted, or shall volunteer, shall not be as- 

 signed as State troops,but shall be mustered into regi- 

 ments or companies as United States colored troops. 



By the act of July 4th the President is au- 

 thorized to call for any number of men as vol- 

 unteers for the respective terms of one, two, 

 and three years. Such volunteers or their 

 substitutes shall be credited to the town, town- 

 ship, ward, etc., toward the quota of which they 

 may have volunteered or engaged as substi- 

 tutes. Every accepted and mustered volunteer 

 for one year shall receive $100 bounty, for two 

 years $200, for three years $300; one-third of 

 the bounty at the time of muster in, one-third 

 at the expiration of half the term of service, 

 and one-third at the expiration of the term of 

 service. In case of his death in service the 

 residue of the bounty goes to the widow ; in 

 case there is no widow then to the children ; 

 in case there are no children, then to the sol- 

 dier's mother, if she be alive. The $300 

 commutation clause is absolutely repealed, 

 and if any quota remains unfilled at the ex- 

 piration of fifty days from a call the President 

 is directed to order a draft for one year to fill 

 such quota. The Executives of the States are 

 authorized to send recruiting agents into States 

 declared to be in rebellion as mentioned above. 

 Other sections provide against the enlistment of 

 persons under sixteen years of age, and direct 

 that drafted men, substitutes, and volunteers 

 shall be assigned to organizations from their own 

 States, and that drafts shall be for one hundred 

 per cent, in addition to the number required to 

 fill the quotas. Section 8 provides as follows : 



All persons in the naval service of the United 

 States who have entered said service during the 

 present rebellion, who have not been credited to the 

 quota of any town, district, ward, or State, by reason 

 of their being in said service and not enrolled prior 

 to February 24th, 1864, shall be enrolled and credited 

 to the quotas of the town, ward, district, or State, 

 in which they respectively reside, upon satisfactory 

 proof of their residence made to the Secretary of War. 



The Provost Marshal General reports that 

 during the year efforts were made to perfect 



the enrolment of the national forces, which 

 resulted, on November 1st, in placing on the 

 lists the names of 2,784,226 men; also, that on 

 July 31st there was no material deficiency in 

 the United States on the quotas of troops re- 

 quired, such localities as were behindhand hav- 

 ing been drafted for the amounts due from 

 them. The draft under the July call took 

 place during the excitement of the Presidential 

 canvass, and notwithstanding threats of resist- 

 ance, and some instances of actual organized re- 

 sistance, proceeded in accordance with the law. 

 A large portion of the commutation money re- 

 ceived from drafted men, while such commu- 

 tation was lawful, was appropriated "for tlio 

 expenses of the draft and for the procuration 

 of substitutes." 



The July call for 500,000 men, as has been 

 stated, failed, from the numerous credits on 

 account of army and navy enlistments, to pro- 

 duce the number of men required; and in 

 assigning the quotas under the succeeding De- 

 cember call a new element had to be taken 

 into consideration, viz., how many localities 

 had filled their quotas with three years' men, 

 how many with two years' men, and how 

 many with one year's men. Hence the Provost 

 Marshal General announced that the number 

 of men to be furnished under the December 

 call, would not be in proportion to the popu- 

 lation of States or Districts, or to the number 

 enrolled. In a communication to the Governor 

 of Minnesota, in reply to inquiries respecting 

 the quota of that State, he observed : 



Had all localities filled the call for 500,000 with 

 three years' men, or all one year's men, or all in the 

 same proportion of both, the number of men to be 

 furnished under the present call would be in propor- 

 tion to the number enrolled. But as it would be un- 

 just and illegal to require a district which had filled 

 its quota under the last call with three years' men to 

 furnish as many men under the present call as an 

 equal district which had filled its quota under the 

 last call with one year's men, the former having fur- 

 nished three times the number of years of service 

 which the latter had furnished, it became necessary 

 to estimate the number of years of service which 

 each State, district, and sub-district had furnished 

 respectively, so that in ascertaining the required 

 number for each district in order to obtain three 

 hundred thousand men, each locality would receive 

 full credit for the number of years of service furnish- 

 ed under the last call, or excess carried forward and 

 credited upon that call, previous calls being filled 

 with three years' men, or enlistments reduced to the 

 three years basis. * 



In crediting the excess that is carried forward 

 from the call of July 18, 1864, and applied to the call 

 of December ] 9, 1864, I consider not only the num- 

 ber of men of which the excess is composed, but also 

 the period of their service; and the quotas assigned 

 under the call of December 19, are thus reduced by 

 this excess of service, and hence they should not be 

 further reduced, except by enlistments subsequent 

 to December 19, 1864, the date of the call for three 

 hundred thousand men. 



These quotations may be considered to em- 

 body the principle on which the raising of men 

 for the military and naval service will be con- 

 ducted under the present enrolment act* Poi 

 further details see MICHIGAN. 



