all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors, within the United States, ... shall be subject to martial law and liable to trial and punishment by courts-martial or military commissions
Proclamation 94—Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus
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of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indicated.
But that proclamation falls far short of what the amendment will be when fully consummated.
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Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
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