Special Message
12/17/1867
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I transmit herewith a report from the General Commanding the Army of the United States, prepared in compliance with the ...
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 27th of January last, in relation to the arrest and trial of the Rev. J...
I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State on the subject, with its accompanying papers.
It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.