Executive Order
02/17/1862
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With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...
Induced by a dispatch from General Grant, I join you at Fort Monroe as soon as I come.
The Provost-Marshal-General is ordered to make the draft in the respective districts as speedily as the same can be done...
the President directs that from and after this date the order above referred to requiring passports shall be modified, a...