the object of the war being to restore and maintain the blessings of peace and good government, I desire you to help, an...
while I can not order as within requested, allow me to say that it is my wish for you to relieve the people from all bur...
Allow the bearer, F. P. Blair, sr., to pass our lines, go South, and return.
Let nothing which is transpiring change, hinder, or delay your military movements or plans.
Your having shown me Mr. Davis's letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am n...
Say to the gentlemen I will meet them personally at Fortress Monroe as soon as I can get there.
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, requesting information concerning recent conversations or ...
Be pleased to signify this to the respective Houses of Congress.
With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...
The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...
He disclaims all right of the Executive to interfere in any way in the matter of canvassing or counting electoral votes.
Complaint is made to me, by Vermont, that the assignment of her quota for the draft on the pending call is intrinsically...
It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.
The expediency of sanctioning the acceptance of the gift is submitted to your consideration.
By no other result can the six thousand men be obtained from the two States, and, at the same time deal justly and keep ...
These three thousand five hundred and two thousand five hundred make precisely six thousand, which the supposed case req...
