That .this order be executed with such promptness and dispatch as not to delay the commencement of the operations alread...
No more than two army corps (about 50,000 troops) of said Army of the Potomac shall be moved en route for a new base of ...
Fourth Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General E. D. Keyes.
The forces left for the defense of Washington will be placed in command of Brigadier-General James S. Wadsworth, who sha...
Ordered, 1. That the major-general commanding the Army of the Potomac proceed forthwith to organize that part of the sai...
No change of the base of operations of the Army of the Potomac shall be made without leaving in and about Washington suc...
Third Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General S. P. Heintzelman.
I transmit herewith, for the constitutional action of the Senate thereon, a treaty concluded at Paola, Kans., on the 18t...
I say 'initiation' because, in my judgment, gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all.
In the annual message last December I thought fit to say 'the Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means...
I earnestly beg the attention of Congress and the people to the subject.
The United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State...
In the mere financial or pecuniary view any member of Congress with the census tables and Treasury reports before him ca...
War has been made and continues to be an indispensable means to this end.
If the proposition contained in the resolution does not meet the approval of Congress and the country, there is the end;...
I submit to the Senate, for its consideration, a copy of a message addressed to that body by my immediate predecessor on...
As the 'journal' is an original document, pertaining to the archives of the Department of State, it is proper, when the ...
But while the United States are thus a friend to all other nations, they do not seek to conceal the fact that they cheri...