I do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within sixty days from the date of this proclamation, viz, on or before the 10th day of May, 1865, return to service or report...
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, as r...
the President directs that from and after this date the order above referred to requiring passports shall be modified, a...
but whereas information has recently been received which affords reasonable grounds to expect that Her Britannic Majesty...
In answer to the Senate's resolution of the 6th instant, requesting the return of a certain joint resolution, I transmit...
It is due to this officer to state that he was passed over in consequence of physical disability, this disability having...
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us striv...
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.
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...
Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued favor of Almighty God.