Is the army secure in its present position?
Where is the enemy now?
What amount of force have you now?
Let us have faith that right makes might.
Herewith is the draft of the bill to compensate any State which may abolish slavery within its limits, the passage of wh...
My reason for so doing is that I have approved an act of the same title passed by Congress after the passage of the one ...
I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly of infantry.
I most cordially recommend that Captain Andrew H. Foote, of the United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress...
I trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and...
I have decided to call into the service an additional force of 300,000 men.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South C...
Thus reenforced our gallant Army will be enabled to realize the hopes and expectations of the Government and the people.
Rather than hazard the misapprehension of our military condition and of groundless alarm by a call for troops by proclam...
To accomplish the object stated we require without delay 150,000 men, including those recently called for by the Secreta...
When the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Virginia shall be in position to communicate and directly co-operate at or ...
The command of the Army of Virginia is specially assigned to Major-General John Pope, as commanding general.
The accompanying treaty, made and concluded at the city of Washington on the 24th day of June, 1862.
The forces under Major-Generals Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, including the troops now under Brigadier-General Sturgis a...