Political Quotes

of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indicated.

To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.

It is due to this officer to state that he was passed over in consequence of physical disability, this disability having occurred in the discharge of his duties; and prior to his misfortune he bore the reputation of an efficient and…

Ordered, first. That at the hour of noon on the 14th day of April, 1865, Brevet Major-General Anderson will raise and plant upon the ruins of Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, the same United States flag which floated over the battlements…