Lieutenant-general grant, City Point, Va.: 

Say to the gentlemen I will meet them personally at Fortress Monroe as soon as I can get there.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to Secretary Seward,
Washington, D. C., February 2, 1865.

Hon.  William H. Seward, Fortress Monroe, Va.

Induced by a despatch of General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe, as soon as I can come.

A. Lincoln.

ORDER TO MAKE CORRECTIONS IN THE DRAFT.

Executive Mansion,
Washington city, February 6, 1865

Whereas complaints are made in some localities respecting the assignments of quotas and credits allowed for the pending call of troops to fill up the armies:  Now, in order to determine all controversies in respect thereto, and to avoid any delay in filling up the armies, it is ordered,

1.  That the Attorney-General, Brigadier-General Richard Delafield, and Colonel C. W. Foster, be, and they are hereby constituted, a board to examine into the proper quotas and credits of the respective States and districts under the call of December 19, 1864, with directions, if any errors be found therein, to make such corrections as the law and facts may require, and report their determination to the Provost-Marshal-General.  The determination of said board to be final and conclusive, and the draft to be made in conformity therewith.

2.  The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done after the fifteenth of this month.

Abraham Lincoln.

TO PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL.

Executive Mansion,
Washington, February 6, 1865.

Provost-marshal-general: 

These gentlemen distinctly say to me this morning that what they want is the means from your office of showing their people that the quota assigned to them is right.  They think it will take but little time —­two hours, they say.  Please give there double the time and every facility you can.

Yours truly,

A. Lincoln.

February 6, 1865.

The Provost-Marshal brings this letter back to me and says he cannot give the facility required without detriment to the service, and thereupon he is excused from doing it.

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to lieutenant-colonel Glenn. 
Executive Mansion, Washington, February 7, 1865.

Lieutenant-colonel Glenn,
Commanding Post at Henderson, Ky.: 

Complaint is made to me that you are forcing negroes into the military service, and even torturing them—­riding them on rails and the like to extort their consent.  I hope this may be a mistake.  The like must not be done by you, or any one under you.  You must not force negroes any more than white men.  Answer me on this.