The University of Michigan Library provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes, with permission from their copyright holder. If you decide to use any of these materials, you are responsible for making your own legal assessment and securing any necessary permission.
Let Brigadier Generals of volunteers be appointed as follow:
Daniel E. Sickles, of New-York.
O. O. Howard, and Charles D. Jameson, of Maine---
A. Mc. D. McCook, of Ohio---
Ebenezer Dumont, Robert H. Milroy, and Lewis Wallace, of Indiana.
William A. Richardson, and Eleazer A. Paine, of Illinois.
Yours truly A. LINCOLN
[1] ALS, IHi. Colonel Daniel E. Sickles of the Seventieth New York, Colonel Oliver O. Howard of the Third Maine, Colonel Charles D. Jameson of the Second Maine, Captain Alexander McDowell McCook of the Third Infantry Regular Army, Colonel Ebenezer Dumont of the Seventh Indiana, Colonel Robert H. Milroy of the Ninth Indiana, Colonel Lewis Wallace of the Eleventh Indiana, and Colonel Eleazer A. Paine of the Ninth Illinois were all appointed brigadiers on September 3, 1861. William A. Richardson's appointment of the same date seems not to have been accepted as there is no record of his service as brigadier.