Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-22
WAR DEPARTMENT
PROVOST MARSHAL GENERALS OFFICE,
WAsHIEoTUH, March IL, 1865.
CIRCULAR

N conformity with the Proclamation of the Presi.
dent herewith published, all officers and en-
ployees OF this Bureau instructed give prompt
attention to the receiving and forwarding Of such
deserters as present themselves In accordance with
It's provisions.
"BY THE PRECEDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
"A PROCLAMATION.
q Whereas the twenty fret section of the act of
Congress, approved the third instant, emit.
tied AN act to amend the several acts heretofore
passed to provide for the enrolling and calIiop MT
the national forces, and for other purposes requires
shat in addition to the other lawful penalties Of the
crime of deSertiOn from the military naval servce
all who have deserted the military or naval
service OF the United States who shall not return to
said service, or report themselves to a Provost
Marshal within sixty days aft the proc am 4tion
hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed an d taken
to have voluntarily ren9uishsd and forfeited their
rights Of citizenship and their rights to become cit
Zens and such deeerters shall be forever iDcaDabIe
of holding any office Of trust prof under the
United states or OF exercising anyTiVhts OF citizens
thereof and all persons who shall hereafter desert
the military naval service and all persons who.
being duly enrolled shall depart the Jurisdiction OF
the district in which he is enrolled or 90 beyond
the limits of the United States with inteGt 10 avoid
any draft into the military or naval SERVICE duly
ordered. shall be liable to the penalties of this sec
ton And the President is hereby authorized and
required forthwith the passage Ofthis ac to is.
his proclamation setting forth the provisions Of
this section, in which proclamation the President Is
requested to notify all deaerters returning within
sixty days. aforesaid, that they shall be pardoned
on condition of returning to their Regiments and
companies, or to such other organizations as they
may be assigned to- until they shall have served for
period Of time equal to their original term of en-
Hstment!
GNow, therefore, be It known that 1, Abraham
Lincoln, President of the United states do issue this
my Proclamation, required by said act, ordering
and requiring all deserters return to their proper
posts and do hereby notify them that all deIerters
no Ell II, within sixty DAYS from the date of this
Proclamation viz: before the 10th day of May,
1865, return to service. or report themselves to
. Proyost Marshal shall DO pardoned, on condition
that they return 70 their regiments and comp miles,
or to such other Organizations as they may be as
signed and serve the remainder of their original
terms Of enlistment and, in addition thereto, q Pc
Rod equal to the time lost by assertion
SIN testimony whereof, have heTeunto set my
afixed.
tDone at the City of Washington, this eleventh
day Of March; In the year OF our Lord one
Il. g. thousand eight hundred aud sixt, five and
Of the Independence OF the United States the
eighty ninth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
"By the President:
CIVILIAN b. SEWARD, sec'y ofstate.
The records and returns of these doserters will be
made up In the same manner a. Il provided for in
other by existing regulations, except that Il
will be noted ON the book Of the deSertsrs Arres
opposite the name Of the deSerter the fact OF HIS
having Voluntarily surrendered himself in conform
ity with the Preddente Proclamation; and the nm.
Der thus surrendering themselves 70 be ssparatelv
stated on the report 70 this ONCE,
The Secretary OF War directs that no reward be
paid for the arrest Of deserteFs Who may be arrested
subsequent TO the receipt Of this order by the Dis
trict Provost harshalA JAMES B. FRY,
mh1I-1W Provost Marshal General