I believe he is a brave and able man, and I stand here, as justice requires me to do, to take upon myself what has been charged on the Secre...
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
If any State shall not by the 15th of August furnish its quota of the additional 300,000 volunteers authorized by law the deficiency of volu...
That a draft of 300,000 militia be immediately called into the service of the United States, to serve for nine months unless sooner discharg...
Regulations will be prepared by the War Department and presented to the President with the object of securing the promotion of officers of t...
All officers and privates fit for duty absent at that time will be regarded as absent without cause, their pay will be stopped, and they dis...
All leaves of absence and furloughs, by whomsoever given, unless by the War Department, are revoked and absolutely annulled.
No officer shall be restored to his rank unless by the judgment of a court of inquiry, to be approved by the President, he shall establish t...
The only excuses allowed for the absence of officers or privates after the 11th day of August are: First. The order or leave of the War Depa...
Any officer or private whose health permits him to visit watering places or places of amusement, or to make social visits or walk about the ...
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth sectio...
That military commanders within the States of Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkans...
That military and naval commanders shall employ as laborers within and from said States so many persons of African descent as can be advanta...
That as to both property and persons of African descent accounts shall be kept sufficiently accurate and in detail to show quantities and am...
that while property may be destroyed for proper military objects, none shall be destroyed in wantonness of malice.
It is the duty of all aliens residing in the United States to submit to and obey the laws and respect the authority of the Government.
But they can not be required to take an oath of allegiance to this Government, because it conflicts with the duty they owe to their own sove...
I think the greater punishment can not be constitutionally inflicted in a different form for the same offense.
