Interview with John T. Mills
08/14/1864
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Its observance will be strictly enforced by all officers, civil, military, and naval in the service of the United States...
My reason for so doing is that I am informed that this joint resolution was prepared during the last moments of the last...
Your having shown me Mr. Davis's letter to you of the 12th instant, you may say to him that I have constantly been, am n...
He wished the reunion of all the States perfected and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the future;