Letter to William H. Herndon
03/05/1864
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the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the Sta...
on the 1st day of January, A. D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the...
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Ordered, That the general-in-chief, Major-General Halleck, immediately commence, and proceed with all possible despatch; to organize an army...