Abraham Lincoln said...

but whereas information has recently been received which affords reasonable grounds to expect that Her Britannic Majesty...

of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indic...

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

the object of the war being to restore and maintain the blessings of peace and good government, I desire you to help, an...