Letter to William H. Herndon
03/05/1864
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The Department buildings will be illuminated on the night of Washington's birthday, in honor of the recent triumphs of t...
of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indic...
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us striv...
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it...