59 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 64LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. City of Washington, July 9, 1863. Folio, single sheet (7-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches folded) partially printed and accomplished in secretarial hand, signed. Framed. $49,000 Signed By Abraham Lincoln: Rare Official Presidential Document Dated July 7, 1863—The Same Day He Declared In A Speech “All Men Are Created Equal”— Ordering New York To Draft Thousands Under The Unpopular 1863 Conscription Act That Triggered, Less Than A Week After This Document, The Bloody New York Draft Riots Fine July 7, 1863 official presidential order signed by Lincoln shortly after the Union’s powerful but costly victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, here calling for New York to draft thousands of men under the controversial March 3, 1863 Conscription Act, a law that would provoke the bloody New York draft riots that erupted only six days later. “The summer of 1863 witnessed the great Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg during the same week in July, but little more than a week later it saw the eruption of the bloody riots in New York City” (Wilson, Lincoln’s Sword, 182). This important July 7, 1863 official presidential document, signed by Lincoln soon after those important battlefield victories, speaks to the Union’s dire need for troops after its recent but costly triumphs. Here Lincoln calls for New York’s Eighth District—based in Queens at the time—to furnish 4892 men “as the first proportional part of the quota of troops… under the act approved March 3, 1863, entitled ‘An Act for Enrolling and Calling out the National Forces… I order that a draft be made in the said Eighth District of the State of New York for the number of men herein assigned to said District, and Fifty Per Cent In Addition.” Without paper seal. Fine condition, Lincoln’s signature bold and bright.
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