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" He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost... "
Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Autocrat of Rebellion, Emancipation, and ... - Page 259
by Frank Abial Flower - 1905 - 425 pages
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Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Letters and telegrams, Gasparin to Meade

Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political questions. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meanwhile you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. Edwin...
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General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at ...

Philemon Tecumseh Sherman - 1908 - 48 pages
...He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss or confer upon any political questions. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. :;: :-;:)::[: * :i: ^; ;!; * >J: :-: "EnwiN M. STANTON, Secretary of War."...
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Abraham Lincoln, an Interpretation in Biography

Denton Jaques Snider - 1908 - 584 pages
...He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political questions. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meanwhile you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.1' A...
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General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at ...

Philemon Tecumseh Sherman - United States - 1908 - 34 pages
...He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss or confer upon any political questions. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. "EowiN M. STANTON, Secretary of War." But of this despatch Gen. Sherman...
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Abraham Lincoln, the Boy and the Man

James Morgan - 1908 - 510 pages
...the true spirit of a government where the civil is at all times superior to the military authority, "the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions." Feeling now that the downfall of the Confederacy was near, he determined...
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Abraham Lincoln; the Tribute of a Century, 1809-1909: Commemorative of the ...

Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 704 pages
...notified the Lieutenant-General, "You are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political questions. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. ' ' In this connection, and as confirmatory of the President's control...
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In Memoriam, Edwin McMasters Stanton, His Life and Work: With Account of ...

Joseph Beatty Doyle - Edwin McMasters Stanton Statue (Steubenville, Ohio) - 1911 - 544 pages
...wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it is for the capitulation of General Lee^s army, or on some minor or purely military matter....submit them to no military conference or convention. Meanwhile you are to press to the utmost your military advantages. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary c«f...
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War Rights on Land

James Molony Spaight - War (International law) - 1911 - 540 pages
...the capitulation of Lee's army, or on solely minor or purely military matters. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss or confer upon...his own hands and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantage.2 The extent...
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Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln

Helen Nicolay - 1912 - 460 pages
...the Confederacy at Hampton Roads. And when the war was nearing its close he sent word to Grant : " You are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any...his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meanwhile you are to press to the utmost your military advantages." When...
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Rules of Land Warfare

United States. War Department. General Staff - Military law - 1914 - 244 pages
...the capitulation of Lee's army, or on solely minor or purely military matters. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon...his own hands and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantage." Draper,...
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