07/20/1862
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"In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, requesting information concerning recent conversations or communications with insurgents under Executive sanction, I transmit a report fro..."
"Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come."
"Be pleased to signify this to the respective Houses of Congress."
"With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the duty required under the most favorable circumstances, and now rendered doubly d..."