Abraham Lincoln actually said...

That Major-General John A. Dix, commanding in Baltimore, and the Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, of New York, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners for the purposes above mentioned,

Context

Executive Order No. 2—State Prisoners

02/26/1862

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