Special Message
02/24/1863
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To the Senate of the United States:In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, I transmit herewi...
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 bur...
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...