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Additional ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE allowed App'td April App'td June appointment approved Army Army Corps Artillery Assistant Assistant Adjutant authority battle Board bounty Brigadier called Capt Captain Cavalry Charles Colonel command Commissary commission Company Corps court court-martial December Department direction discharged dismissed District dollars duty E. D. TOWNSEND enemy enlisted examination February 19 field fill an original forces further enacted George Henry hereby horses Hospital hundred Illinois Infantry James January John July June Lieut Major March 11 Massachusetts Medical Michigan military mustered November 26 Ohio ORDER Ordnance organization original vacancy paid parole Paymaster Pennsylvania person present President prisoners Private promoted rank received recruits regiments regular Regulations Relieved rolls Second Lieutenant SECRETARY Sergeant Signal soldiers Subsistence Surgeon Temporary Thomas thousand troops U. S. Inf'y United vice Vols Volunteers Washington wounds York
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Page 16 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 15 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 1 - Who knowingly purchases or receives in pledge for any obligation or indebtedness from any soldier, officer, or other person...
Page 16 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 9 - Whoever intentionally inflicts additional wounds on an enemy already wholly disabled, or kills such an enemy, or who orders or encourages soldiers to do so, shall suffer death, if duly convicted, whether he belongs to the army of the United States, or is an enemy captured after having committed his misdeed.
Page 20 - That, during the present rebellion, the President of the United States, whenever, in his judgment, the public safety may require it, is authorized to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in any case throughout the United States, or any part thereof.
Page 15 - Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 3 - If such works of art, libraries, collections, or instruments belonging to a hostile nation or government, can be removed without injury, the ruler of the conquering state or nation may order them to be seized and removed for the benefit of the said nation. The ultimate ownership is to be settled by the ensuing treaty of peace. In no case shall they be sold or given away, if captured by the armies of the United States, nor shall they ever be privately appropriated, or wantonly destroyed or injured.
Page 89 - An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes...