Abraham Lincoln actually said...

I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in f...

And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, ...

Ordered by the President of the United States, That Major-General Hooker be, and he is hereby, authorized to take military posession of all ...

the blockade of the said port of Alexandria shall so far cease and determine from and after this date