Order Approving Sentence of Fitz-John Porter1Jump to section
The foregoing proceedings, findings, and sentence in the foregoing case of Major-General Fitz-John Porter, are approved and confirmed; and it is ordered that the said Fitz-John Porter be, and he hereby is, cashiered and dismissed from the service of the United States as a Major General of Volunteers, and as Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General in the Regular Service of the United States, and forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States.
January 21, 1863. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] AGO General Orders No. 18, January 22, 1863.