Special Message
02/18/1863
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To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.
I do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within sixty days from the date of this proclamation, viz, on or b...
It is due to this officer to state that he was passed over in consequence of physical disability, this disability having...
These three thousand five hundred and two thousand five hundred make precisely six thousand, which the supposed case req...