Abraham Lincoln actually said...

I do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within sixty days from the date of this proclamation, viz, on or before the 10th day o...

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, as required by said act,...

In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 6th instant, requesting the return of a certain joint resolution, I transmit a report from the S...

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