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8857. VOLUNTEERS, Organizing.—

I
have encouraged the acceptance of volunteers,
* * * [who] have offered themselves with
great alacrity in every part of the Union. [506] They are ordered to be organized * * *.—
Seventh Annual Message. Washington ed. viii, 87. Ford ed., ix, 162.
(Oct. 1807)

See Army and Militia.

 
[506]

To oppose Burr's treason.—Editor.