Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-04-07
Circular, No. 6.
WAR DEPARTMENT.,
PRovOsr MARSHAL GENERALS 0FpICE.
Washington, d. c., March ii, IS.

PRovosr MARSHAL GENERAL rs OrrICE.
Washington, b. c., March IL, '6j. ,
I N conformity with the Proclamation Of the
l. President herewith published, all oficess and
employees Of this Bureau IRE instructed to give
prompt attention to the receiving and forwarding
Of such deserters as present themselves in &C.
cordance with its provisions.
"By the Pres,dent of the United States of America
"a PROCLAMATION.
"Wheroas the twenty.frst section Of the act
of Congress, approved on the third instant, en-.
titled AN act to amend tho several acts he eto.
fore passed for the enrolling and calling out the
national forces and for other purposes requires
that in addition to the other lawful penalties Of
the crime of dcsertion from the military or naval
SERVICE all persons who have deserted the militia
ry or naval service Of the United States who shall
not return to said service, or report themselves
to q Provost Marshal within sixty days after the
proclamation hereinafter mentioned, shall be
deemed and taken to have voluntarily rciinquish.
ed and forfeited their rights Of citizenship and
their rights to become citizens. and such dsserters
shall be forever incapable of holding any office of
trust or profit under tho United States, or of ex.
ercising any rights Of citizens thereof; and all
persons who shall hereafter desert the military or
naval service, and all persons who, being duly
enrolled, shall depart the Jurisdiction of the dis
trict in which he is enrolled, or 20 beyond the
limits Of the United States with intent to avoid
any draft into the military or naval service, duly
ordered, shall be liable to the penalties Of this
section. And the President is hereby authorized
and required forthwith on the passage Of this
act, to issue his proclamation setting forth the
provisions Of this section, in which proclamation
the Presden: is requested to notify ali deserters
returning within sixty days, IS aforesaid, that
they shall be pardoned on condition Of returning
to their regiments and companies, or to such 9TH
q organizations as they may be assigned to- until
thnv hall h0 fnu .,f a.
to their original term Of enlistment
CHOW, therefore, be it known that +, Abraham
Lincoln, President Of the United States, do issue
this my Proclamation, as required by said act,
ordering and requiring all deserters to return
to their proper posts; and I do hereby notify
them that all deserters whs SHALL within sixty
days from the date of this Proclamation, viz: on
or before the 10th day of May, 1865, return to
SERVICE or report themselves to a Provost Marshal
shall be pardoned, on condition that they return
to their regiments and companies, or to such or
ganizatisns as they may be assigned to, and serve
the remainder Of their original terms Of enlist
ment, add, in ad liton thereto, . period equal to
the time lost by desertion.
"ln testimony whereof, have hereunto ret my
hand, and caused the seal Of the United States to
DO affixed.
"Done at the city Of Washington, this
eleventh day of March, 10 the year Of
L. s. our Lord ono thousand eight hundred
and sixty-hve, and OF the independence
of the United States, the eighty ninth.
"ABRAHAH LINCOLN.
"By the President
"WILLIAx II. SEWARD,
Secretary of State "
The records and returns of these deserters will
| be made up in the same manner as is provided for
in other cases by existing regulations. except that
it will be noted the book Of deserters arrested,
opposite the name of the deserter tho fact of his
| having voluntarily surrendered himself in con-
formity with the Presidents Proclamation; and
the number thus surrendcring themselves to be
separately sta ed on the report to this Office.
| The Secretary of War directs that no reward
be paid tor the arrest Of descrters who may DO
arrested subsequent to the receipt Of this order by
| the District Provost Marshals.
~ JAMES B. FRY,
Provost Marshal Genei al.
Official copy.
A. D. BEAN,
Capt. and Provost Marshal 5th Dist. Nc.