Executive Order
08/07/1862
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I therefore recommend, as a military measure, that Congress provide for the construction of such road as speedily as possible.
We should not be in haste to determine that radical and extreme measures, which may reach the loyal as well as the disloyal, are indispensab...
A nation which endures factious domestic division is exposed to disrespect abroad.
The war continues.