AbrahamLincoln

The Post is tweeting the Civil War, in the words of the people who lived it 150 years ago - from journals, letters, records and newspapers. Follow the list.

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Lincoln: " it is ordered that Major-General McClellan be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac"

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Lincoln to McClellan: “Is it your purpose not to go into action again until the men now being drafted in the States are incorporated?"

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Lincoln to McClellan: “To be told…the cavalry horses were too much fatiegued to move, presented a very cheerless, almost hopeless, prospect”

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Lincoln: “each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God...God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time”

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Lincoln to McClellan: “pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietam that fatigue anything?”

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Lincoln: “when a sufficient force… shall be raised, an expedition may be organized under General McClernand's command against Vicksburg”

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Lincoln to crowd: “I can only trust in God I have made no mistake [issuing the #Emancipation Proclamation] (cries: No mistake!)”

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Lincoln: "the Writ of Habeas Corpus is suspended in respect to all persons arrested, or who are now, or hereafter...imprisoned"

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Lincoln: "on the first day of January…all persons held as slaves within any State…in rebellion…shall be…forever free http://t.co/KTgJ0yqT

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Lincoln to McClellan: “What news from the front?”

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Lincoln: “If [McClellan]…cannot be successful, not only [Stanton], but myself...being the master of them both, cannot be but failures"

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Lincoln speech: “McClellan's attitude is such that…he cannot but wish to be successful…and [Stanton] is in precisely the same situation.”

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Lincoln to McClellan: “If you can hold your present position, we shall 'hive' the enemy yet”

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Lincoln to McClellan: “All accounts say better fighting was never done. Ten thousand thanks for it”

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Lincoln to Union governors: “If I had fifty thousand additional troops here now, I believe I could substantially close the war in two weeks”

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Lincoln to McClellan: “If you are not strong enough to face the enemy you must find a place of security, and wait, rest, and repair”

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Lincoln to McClellan: “If we had a million of men we could not get them to you in time”

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Lincoln to McClellan: “It is impossible to re-inforce you for your present emergency”

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Lincoln to Senate: “I transmit...a treaty for the suppression of the...slave trade, between the United States and her Britannic Majesty”

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Lincoln to McClellan: “With these continuous rains, I am very anxious about the Chickahominy so close in your rear”