Abraham Lincoln actually said...

And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, ...

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, b...

I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in f...

Ordered by the President of the United States, That Major-General Hooker be, and he is hereby, authorized to take military posession of all ...