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XIV...[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 25.]
JOINT RESOLUTION expressive of the thanks of Congress to Major-General Winfield S. Hancock.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That in addition to the thanks heretofore voted by Joint Resolution, approved January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to Major-General George G. Meade, Major-General Oliver O. Howard, and to the officers and soldiers of the Army of the Potomac, for the skill and heroic valor which at Gettysburg repulsed, defeated, and drove back, broken and dispirited, the veteran army of the rebellion, the gratitude of the American people, and the thanks of their representatives in Congress, are likewise due, and are hereby tendered, to Major-General Winfield S. Hancock, for his gallant, meritorious, and conspicuous share in the great and decisive victory.
Approved, April 21, 1866.
          
XV...[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 28.]
A RESOLUTION expressive of the gratitude of the nation to the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the United States. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it is the duty and the privilege of Congress to express the gratitude of the nation to the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the United States, by whose valor and endurance, on the land and on the sea, the rebellion has been crushed, and its pride and its power have been humbled, by whose fidelity to the cause of freedom the government of the people has been preserved and maintained, and by whose orderly return from the fire and blood of civil war to the peaceful pursuits of private life, the exalting and enobling influence of free institutions upon a nation has been so signally manifested to the world. 
Approved, May 30, 1866.
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
E.D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant General. 

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