Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps During the Civil War |
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Page 329 - No receding by the Executive of the United States, on the slavery question, from the position assumed thereon in the late annual message to Congress, and in preceding documents. " 3. No cessation of hostilities short of an end of the war, and the disbanding of all forces hostile to the Government.