Letter from Abraham Lincoln to George McClellan (1862)
Major General McClellan. My dear Sir. Your despatches complaining that you are not properly sustained, while they do not offend me, do pain me very much. Blencker’s Division was withdrawn
Major General McClellan. My dear Sir. Your despatches complaining that you are not properly sustained, while they do not offend me, do pain me very much. Blencker’s Division was withdrawn

Fellow Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting: Whereas, it appears that at a Term of the Circuit Court of

Source: Abraham Lincoln, “Proclamation 115 – Concerning a Bill To Guarantee to Certain States, Whose Governments Have Been Usurped or Overthrown, a Republican Form of Government.” Online by Gerhard Peters

MY DEAR SIR: Months ago I should have acknowledged the receipt of your book and accompanying kind note, and I now have to beg your pardon for not having done
I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you

Equality, in society, alike beats inequality, whether the latter be of the British aristocratic sort, or of the domestic slavery sort. We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better

Messrs M. Birchard David A Houk Geo. Bliss T. W. Bartley W. J. Gordon Jno. O’Neill C. A. White W. E. Finck Alexander Long J. W White Geo. H.

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain

All creation is a mine, and every man, a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself, in his physical, moral, and