Executive Order
02/20/1865
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It is due to this officer to state that he was passed over in consequence of physical disability, this disability having...
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...
He has gone in again at Savannah, and I propose three cheers for his coming out gloriously.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.