Political Quotes

of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indicated.

Say to the gentlemen I will meet them personally at Fortress Monroe as soon as I can get there.

Allow the bearer, F. P. Blair, sr., to pass our lines, go South, and return.

With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the duty required under the most favorable circumstances, and now rendered doubly difficult by existing national perils…