And to do and perform all acts and things that may be necessary or proper to be done for the safe and speedy transport aforesaid
With authority to enter upon, take possession of, hold, and use all railroads, engines, cars, locomotives, equipments, a...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, requesting a communication of any recent correspondence re...
Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully correspond with the intention of the law or be more pregna...
Ordered,That all the disposable force of the Army of the Potomac, after providing safely for the defense of Washington, ...
As a sequel to the correspondence on the subject previously communicated, I transmit to Congress extracts from a dispatc...
I submit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of extradition concluded by Mr. Corw...
The advice of the Senate as to the expediency of accepting that convention as a substitute for the one of the 31st of Ju...
That all other forces, both land and naval, with their respective commanders, obey existing orders for the time and be r...
That the heads of Departments, and especially the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, with all their subordinates, and t...
Ordered, That the 22d day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the land and naval forces of the Unite...