Special Message
02/12/1865
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it...
Sherman went in at Atlanta and came out right.
of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indic...
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, as r...