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Messages and Papers of Abraham Lincoln
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General Order Respecting the Observance of the
Sabbath Day in the Army and Navy.
Washington, November 15, 1862.
The President, Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people. and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity.
The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer nor the cause they defend be imperiled by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High. "At this time of public distress," adopting the words of Washington in 1776, "men may find enough to do in the service of God and their country without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality." The first general order issued by the Father of his Country after the Declaration of Independence indicates the spirit in which our institutions were rounded and should ever be defended:
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
Washington City, November 21, 1862.
Ordered, That no arms ammunition, or munitions of war be cleared or allowed to be exported from the United States until further order: thatany clearances for arms, ammunition, or munitions of war issued heretofore by the Treasury Department be vacated if the articles have not passed without the United States, and the articles stopped; that the Secretary of War hold possession of the arms, etc., recently seized by his order at Rouses Point, bound for Canada.
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Chicago: Abraham Lincoln, "General Order Respecting the Observance of the Sabbath Day in the Army and Navy.," Messages and Papers of Abraham Lincoln in James D. Richardson, Ed., a Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Abraham Lincoln (U.S. Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1910), 5:3496-3498 3327. Original Sources, accessed December 4, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=979QN2NCIMQBE1R.
MLA: Lincoln, Abraham. "General Order Respecting the Observance of the Sabbath Day in the Army and Navy." Messages and Papers of Abraham Lincoln, in James D. Richardson, Ed., a Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Abraham Lincoln (U.S. Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1910), 5:3496-3498, page 3327. Original Sources. 4 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=979QN2NCIMQBE1R.
Harvard: Lincoln, A, 'General Order Respecting the Observance of the Sabbath Day in the Army and Navy.' in Messages and Papers of Abraham Lincoln. cited in , James D. Richardson, Ed., a Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Abraham Lincoln (U.S. Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1910), 5:3496-3498, pp.3327. Original Sources, retrieved 4 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=979QN2NCIMQBE1R.
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