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... telegraph her . A. LINCOLN . * DESPATCH TO HIRAM BARNEY EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , August 16 , 1862 . Hon . Hiram Barney , New York : Mrs. L. has $ 1,000 for the benefit of the hospitals and she will be obliged , and send the pay ...
... telegraph her . A. LINCOLN . * DESPATCH TO HIRAM BARNEY EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , August 16 , 1862 . Hon . Hiram Barney , New York : Mrs. L. has $ 1,000 for the benefit of the hospitals and she will be obliged , and send the pay ...
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... TELEGRAPH , WASHINGTON , September 12 , 1862 . ' Major - General Wright , Cincinnati , Ohio : I am being appealed to from Louisville against your withdrawing troops from that place . While I cannot pretend to judge of the propriety of ...
... TELEGRAPH , WASHINGTON , September 12 , 1862 . ' Major - General Wright , Cincinnati , Ohio : I am being appealed to from Louisville against your withdrawing troops from that place . While I cannot pretend to judge of the propriety of ...
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... telegraph him now ; but for us here to control him there on the ground would be a babel of confusion which would be utterly ruinous . Where do you understand Buell to be , and what is he doing ? A. LINCOLN . TELEGRAM TO A. HENRY WAR ...
... telegraph him now ; but for us here to control him there on the ground would be a babel of confusion which would be utterly ruinous . Where do you understand Buell to be , and what is he doing ? A. LINCOLN . TELEGRAM TO A. HENRY WAR ...
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... . A. LINCOLN . Telegraph office please transmit as above and oblige the President . JOHN HAY , * TELEGRAM TO GENERAL KETCHUM EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , 1862 ] Telegram to Morton 35 TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR ANDREW G. CURTIN ...
... . A. LINCOLN . Telegraph office please transmit as above and oblige the President . JOHN HAY , * TELEGRAM TO GENERAL KETCHUM EXECUTIVE MANSION , WASHINGTON , 1862 ] Telegram to Morton 35 TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR ANDREW G. CURTIN ...
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... telegraph you as follows : The President di- rects that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy , or drive him south . Your army must move now , while the roads are good . 1862 ] 53 Meditation could give the final victory to ...
... telegraph you as follows : The President di- rects that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy , or drive him south . Your army must move now , while the roads are good . 1862 ] 53 Meditation could give the final victory to ...
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A. E. BURNSIDE ABRAHAM LINCOLN act of Congress army arrests believe CHASE EXECUTIVE MANSION citizens Colonel colored command Constitution dear Sir December December 22 DEPARTMENT despatch duty election emancipation EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION enemy eral EXECUTIVE MANSION favor force Fort Monroe freedom Frémont G. B. MCCLELLAN give Governor Gamble H. W. HALLECK habeas corpus Harper's Ferry HOOKER WASHINGTON House of Representatives Indorsement January January 21 June June 14 labor LETTER TO SECRETARY Major-General Burnside Major-General Dix March ment military Missouri NOTE TO SECRETARY officers opinion P. M. Major-General Hooker peace persons Potomac President proclamation rebel rebellion received regiments republic resolution Richmond river Rosecrans SECRETARY CHASE EXECUTIVE Secretary of War SECRETARY STANTON EXECUTIVE September September 12 slavery slaves STANTON EXECUTIVE MANSION TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR telegraph tion to-day troops truly Union United Virginia W. S. ROSECRANS WAR DEPARTMENT wish
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Page 156 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 155 - 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...
Page 37 - States, and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed. That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all...
Page 39 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 16 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 162 - 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 116 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution...
Page 39 - States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...
Page x - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 163 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.