Special Message
12/12/1862
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The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...
Ordered, first. That Major-General William F. Smith and the Hon. Henry Stanbery be, and they are hereby, appointed speci...
It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...
In order to supply the aforesaid deficiency and to provide for casualties in the military and naval service of the Unite...