I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly of infantry.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Ge...
I most cordially recommend that Captain Andrew H. Foote, of the United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his eminent ser...
I trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclu...
To accomplish the object stated we require without delay 150,000 men, including those recently called for by the Secretary of War.
Rather than hazard the misapprehension of our military condition and of groundless alarm by a call for troops by proclamation, I have deemed...
Thus reenforced our gallant Army will be enabled to realize the hopes and expectations of the Government and the people.
The forces under Major-Generals Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, including the troops now under Brigadier-General Sturgis at Washington, shall ...
The accompanying treaty, made and concluded at the city of Washington on the 24th day of June, 1862.
The command of the Army of Virginia is specially assigned to Major-General John Pope, as commanding general.
The Army of Virginia shall operate in such manner as, while protecting western Virginia and the national capital from danger or insult, it s...
When the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Virginia shall be in position to communicate and directly co-operate at or before Richmond, the...
I have, nevertheless, thought it just to our excellent minister in Mexico and respectful to the Government of that Republic to lay the treat...
In my judgment it will be found impracticable in the present condition of the currency to make such a discrimination.
I shall cheerfully receive and consider with the highest respect any further advice the Senate may think proper to give upon the subject.
During the existing war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium.
Entertaining these objections to the bill, I feel myself constrained to withhold from it my approval and return it for the further considera...
Such an issue would answer all the beneficial purposes of the bill, would save a considerable amount to the Treasury in interest, would grea...
