Special Message
02/18/1863
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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...
I do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within sixty days from the date of this proclamation, viz, on or b...
It is impossible to concede what Vermont asks without coming out short of three hundred thousand men, or making other lo...
To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.