Executive Order
06/30/1862
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us striv...
of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indic...
To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.
To the Senate of the United States:In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, I transmit herewi...