All regiments of militia or of three-months' volunteers who have offered their services under the recent call of the War...
It is believed that though this instrument contains no stipulation which may not be found in some subsisting treaty betw...
Under the call for three-years' volunteers 50,000 men will be accepted as raised and reported by the respective State go...
You are also authorized to form a permanent corps of artificers, organized, officered, and equipped in such manner as yo...
You are authorized to do whatever you may deem expedient to open for use in the shortest possible time all military rail...
You are also authorized to take possession of and use all railroads, engines, cars, buildings, machinery, and appurtenan...
You are hereby appointed chief of construction and transportation in the Department of the Rappahannock, with the rank o...
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...
It is due to Mr. Cameron to say that although he fully approved the proceedings they were not moved nor suggested by him...
By virtue of the authority vested by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in th...
To the House of Representatives: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the Hou...
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th instant, requesting information in regard ...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, requesting information in regard to arrests in the State ...
Neither General Hunter nor any other commander or person has been authorized by the Government of the United States to m...
whether it be competent for me, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States...
I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics.
For your kind expressions I am extremely grateful, but on the other hand I assure you that the nation is more indebted t...
