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The Judge-Advocate-General is instructed to revise the proceedings of the court-martial in the case of Maj.-Gen. Fitz John Porter, and to report fully upon any legal questions that may have arisen in them, and upon the bearing of the testimony in reference to the charges and specifications exhibited against the accused and upon which he was tried. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] OR, I, XII, II (Supplement), 1134. Judge Advocate General Holt's long review appears in Thirty-seventh Congress, Third Session, House Executive Document No. 71 and in the official Records, I, XII, II (Supplement), 1112-33.