Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Benjamin F. Butler1Jump to section

Major General Butler [January 18, 1864]

Fort-Monroe.

Gov. Pierpoint has been, from the first, a zealous and efficient supporter of the government. He now understands that you have ordered all the municipal officers of Norfolk and Portsmouth to report to you in detail the amounts of all money received by them, &c. and also that your have constituted a commission to investigate the condition of the Savings Funds and Banking institutions there; and he, as Governor, feels agrieved by these measures. The President directs me to request you to suspend these measures, until

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you can state to him, in writing or otherwise, your views of the necessity or propriety of them. EDWIN M STANTON

Sec of War

Annotation

[1] AL-F, ISLA. This communication was written by Lincoln and signed by Stanton. General Butler wrote Lincoln on February 23, 1864, a forty-page report enclosing voluminous reports and summaries from his subordinates, which explained the necessities that had dictated the issuing of his General Orders No. 40 and clarified misstatements made by Governor Peirpoint (DLC-RTL). The bracketed date is established by related communications in the Butler Papers and the Lincoln Papers (DLC).

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