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A compilation of orders issued or forwarded by the adjutant general in 1862. Includes General Order 139, September 24, 1862, publishing President Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. [LINCOLN, ABRAHAM] Book, General Orders Affecting the Volunteer Force.... Washington, D.C., 1863. 12 mo. 158 pp. Folding table, stitched. Signed, with compliments slip, by Albert Harrison Hoyt, paymaster, U.S. Army, later an accomplished antiquarian. First edition. 5 x 7_". Inventory #21395 $1,250 Partial transcript: "I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States... hereby proclaim and declare that ... the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States... That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tending pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all Slave States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent or elsewhere … will be continued … That on the first day of January, in the year… one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free …" (G.O. #139) Condition: Very good. A couple of inconspicuous institutional stamps and withdrawal, light wear. Reference: Cited in Eberstadt, 4; Sabin, 26891; Not in Nicholson, Monaghan, or Nevins.
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