Andrew Johnson actually said...

On being relieved from the command of the Department of the Missouri by Major-General P. H. Sheridan, Major-General Hancock will proceed dir...

By virtue of the power and authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States, you are hereby suspended f...

You will at once transfer to General Ulysses S. Grant, who has this day been authorized and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim,...

For reasons heretofore stated in my several veto messages to Congress upon the subject of reconstruction, I return without my approval the '...