Abraham Lincoln actually said...

For their services and gallantry on those occasions I cordially recommend that they should by name receive a vote of thanks of Congress.

Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully correspond with the intention of the law or be more pregnant with happy influe...

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority in me vested by the fifth sec...

He has not been tried because in the state of military operations at the time of his arrest and since the officers to constitute a court-mar...