Abraham Lincoln: “The Department buildings will be illuminated on the night of Washington's birthday, in honor of the recent triumphs of…”

All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

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.

the President directs that from and after this date the order above referred to requiring passports shall be modified, and so much thereof as relates to persons entering this country from Canada shall be rescinded, saving and reserving the…

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 of May, 1865, return to service or report themselves to a provost-marshal shall be pardoned, on…