Special Message
02/12/1865
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Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
Be pleased to signify this to the respective Houses of Congress.
but whereas information has recently been received which affords reasonable grounds to expect that Her Britannic Majesty...
Provost-marshals and marshals of the United States will arrest and commit to military custody all such offenders as shal...