Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
—- Article III, Section 3 [Clause 1]
Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States—without a congressional declaration of war—issues Proclamation 83, calling the State Militias into federal service, for the purpose of invading the Confederate States:
I, Abraham Lincoln … Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy … and of the militia of the several States when called into actual service, do hereby call into the service of the [u]nited States 42,034 volunteers to serve for the period of three years, unless sooner discharged, and to be mustered into service as infantry and cavalry.
[updated 10/9/2026]
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 284.
Webb Garrison, The Lincoln No One Knows: The Mysterious Man Who Ran the Civil War, (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill, 1993), 114.
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