"I most cordially recommend that Captain Andrew H. Foote, of the United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks of Congress for his eminent services"
"I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly of infantry."
"I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Ten..."
"I trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion."
"I have decided to call into the service an additional force of 300,000 men."
"To accomplish the object stated we require without delay 150,000 men, including those recently called for by the Secretary of War."
"Thus reenforced our gallant Army will be enabled to realize the hopes and expectations of the Government and the people."
"Rather than hazard the misapprehension of our military condition and of groundless alarm by a call for troops by proclamation, I have deemed it best to address you in this form."
"The forces under Major-Generals Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, including the troops now under Brigadier-General Sturgis at Washington, shall be consolidated and form one army, to be called the Army of ..."
"The accompanying treaty, made and concluded at the city of Washington on the 24th day of June, 1862."
"The command of the Army of Virginia is specially assigned to Major-General John Pope, as commanding general."