| Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 598 pages
...commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given; That the heads of departments, and especially the...held to their strict and full responsibilities for the prompt execution of this order. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. This peculiar order, issued early after Stan ton's... | |
| Ida Minerva Tarbell - 1900 - 278 pages
...commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. That the heads of departments, and especially the...responsibilities for prompt execution of this order. Four days later the President issued his first Special War Order, applying exclusively to the Army... | |
| Joseph Warren Keifer - History - 1900 - 386 pages
...commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. " That the heads of departments, and especially the...responsibilities for prompt execution of this order. "ABRAHAM LINCOLN." Conservative commanding officers criticised this Presidential order as an assumption... | |
| Peter Smith Michie - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 544 pages
...especially the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, with all their subordinates, and the general in chief with all other commanders and subordinates of land...responsibilities for prompt execution of this order." * . This was followed by the President's Special War Order No. I, January 31st, outlining the plan... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. That the Heads of Departments, and especially the...and of the Navy, with all their subordinates, and th» (leneral-in-chief, with all other commanders and aubordi nates of land and naval forces, will... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 436 pages
...commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. subordinates of land and naval forces, will severally...held to their strict and full responsibilities for the prompt execution of this order. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. We need not seek any covert purpose or obscure... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 392 pages
...commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. That the heads of departments, and especially the...responsibilities for prompt execution of this order. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. LETTER TO SECRETARY STANTON EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 31, 1862. My dear Sir: It is... | |
| William Robertson Garrett, Robert Ambrose Halley - History - 1905 - 640 pages
...commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. "That the heads of departments, and especially the...responsibilities for prompt execution of this order. "ABRAHAM LINCOLN." This general order was followed January 3 1 st by a special order directing the... | |
| Indians of North America - 1905 - 762 pages
...commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. "That the heads of departments, and especially the...responsibilities for prompt execution of this order. "ABRAHAM LINCOLN." This general order was followed January 31st by a special order directing the Army... | |
| Alonzo Rothschild - History - 1906 - 576 pages
...troops were chiefly meant, — the list of course included the Army of the Potomac, — he announced " that the heads of departments, and especially the...responsibilities for prompt execution of this order." 46 Having by virtue of his constitutional authority thus assumed the active direction of military operations,... | |
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