On the recordJanuary 19, 1864
I transmit for your consideration copies of the letters and report.
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Say to the gentlemen I will meet them personally at Fortress Monroe as soon as I can get there.
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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.
Feb 12, 1865
while I can not order as within requested, allow me to say that it is my wish for you to relieve the people from all burdens, harassments and oppressions so far as is possible consistently with your military necessities;
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To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.
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