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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Page 312

To Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section

Executive Mansion,
Washington, April 23, 1864.

My Dear Sir: According to our understanding with Major General Frank P. Blair, at the time he took his seat in Congress last winter, he now asks to withdraw his resignation as major general, then tendered, and be sent to the field. Let this be done. Let the order sending him be such as shown me to-day by the Adjutant General, only dropping from it the names of Maguire and Tompkins. Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN.

Hon. Secretary of War.

Annotation

[1] Thirty-eighth Congress, First Session, House Executive Document No. 80, pp. 6-7. See Lincoln's letter to Grant, March 15, and endorsement to Stanton, April 21, supra. On April 23 Blair wrote Stanton, ``I respectfully request to withdraw my resignation as major general of the United States volunteers, tendered on the 12th day of January, 1864.'' (Ibid.). On the same day AGO General Orders No.178 assigned Blair to command the Seventeenth Army Corps and assigned Captain Andrew J. Alexander to be his assistant adjutant general with rank of lieutenant colonel.

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