I transmit herewith a communication from the Chief of the Engineer Corps of the Army, accompanied by a report, in refere...
I have this day removed Mr. Stanton from office and designated the Adjutant-General of the Army to act as Secretary of W...
I transmit herewith a report from the Attorney-General
In reply to the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the 19th of December last, calling for corresponde...
Until further orders from the President, you will assign no officer to the permanent command of the Military Division of...
In reply to your communication, I have deemed it proper, in order to prevent further misunderstanding, to make this simp...
As requested in this communication, General Grant is instructed in writing not to obey any order from the War Department...
The extraordinary character of your letter of the 3d instant would seem to preclude any reply on my part.
My order to you had only reference to orders 'assumed to be issued by the direction of the President.'
I will only notice one more statement in your letter of the 3d instant—that the performance of the promises which it is ...
Copies of the letters which they have addressed to me upon the subject are accordingly herewith inclosed.
You speak of my letter of the 31st ultimo as a reiteration of the 'many and gross misrepresentations' contained in certa...
It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.
You knew it was the President's purpose to prevent Mr. Stanton from resuming the office of Secretary of War, and you int...
The excuse you make in a subsequent paragraph of that letter of the 28th ultimo, that afterwards you changed your views ...
You say that a performance of the promises alleged to have been made by you to the President 'would have involved a resi...
You here admit that from the very beginning of what you term 'the whole history' of your connection with Mr. Stanton's s...
To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith a report from the Attorney-General, prepared in compliance with ...
