I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, in answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d of June, in rela...
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if yo...
It seems, therefore, to be proper that we should show to any of them who may apply for that purpose that, compatibly with our cardinal polic...
It is believed that though this instrument contains no stipulation which may not be found in some subsisting treaty between the United State...
All regiments of militia or of three-months' volunteers who have offered their services under the recent call of the War Department, and who...
Under the call for three-years' volunteers 50,000 men will be accepted as raised and reported by the respective State governors.
You are hereby appointed chief of construction and transportation in the Department of the Rappahannock, with the rank of colonel, and attac...
You are also authorized to form a permanent corps of artificers, organized, officered, and equipped in such manner as you may prescribe;
You are also authorized to take possession of and use all railroads, engines, cars, buildings, machinery, and appurtenances within the geogr...
You are authorized to do whatever you may deem expedient to open for use in the shortest possible time all military railroads now or hereaft...
I am not aware that a dollar of the public funds thus confided without authority of law to unofficial persons was either lost or wasted, alt...
It is due to Mr. Cameron to say that although he fully approved the proceedings they were not moved nor suggested by himself.
There was no time to convene them.
By virtue of the authority vested by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in the United States from...
To the House of Representatives: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the House of Representative...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th instant, requesting information in regard to the indemnity obt...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, requesting information in regard to arrests in the State of Kentucky, I trans...
whether it be competent for me, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether a...
