16 pp. Unbound, stitched.

Message transmitting "a communication from the Secretary of War [James A. Seddon], showing 'the number of officers and men, including the police and mounted guard, employed in executing the conscript law,' in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia..." As the war began to turn in the Union's favor, fresh bodies must be found. Provenance: Calvin P. Otto.