Abraham Lincoln actually said...

The courage with which you in an open field maintained the contest against an intrenched foe and the consummate skill and success with which...

I tender to you, officers and soldiers, the thanks of the nation.

I transmit a copy of a dispatch to the Secretary of State from Mr. Adams, United States minister at London, and of the correspondence to whi...

It is due to this officer to state that at the period of the passage of the law of December, 1861, he was and still is absent on duty on a f...