While I have not given nor have leisure to give the subject a careful examination, its great importance is obvious and unquestionable.
To the Honorable House of Representatives:In obedience to the resolution of your honorable body of the 9th instant, requesting certain infor...
It is desirable that such legislation as may be necessary to carry the treaty into effect should be enacted as soon as may comport with the ...
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...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 29th ultimo, adopted in executive session, requesting information in regard to the cl...
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...
Under the call for three-years' volunteers 50,000 men will be accepted as raised and reported by the respective State governors.
It is believed that though this instrument contains no stipulation which may not be found in some subsisting treaty between the United State...
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...
All regiments of militia or of three-months' volunteers who have offered their services under the recent call of the War Department, and who...
You are also authorized to take possession of and use all railroads, engines, cars, buildings, machinery, and appurtenances within the geogr...
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 authorized to do whatever you may deem expedient to open for use in the shortest possible time all military railroads now or hereaft...
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.
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...
By virtue of the authority vested by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in the United States from...
