Abraham Lincoln said...

Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.

With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...

To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.

It is due to this officer to state that he was passed over in consequence of physical disability, this disability having...