WAR DEP'T, ADJT.
GEN.'S OFFICE,
Washington, November
1, 186l.
The following order from the President of the United States,
announcing the retirement from active command of the honored veteran Lieut.
Gen. Winfield Scott will be read by the Army with profound regret:
EXECUTIVE
MANSION,
Washington,
November 1, 1861.
On the 1st day of November, A.D. 1861,
upon his own application to the President of the United States, Brevet Lieut.
Gen. Winfield Scott is ordered to be placed, and hereby is placed, upon the
list of retired officers of the Army of the United States, without reduction in
his current pay, subsistence, or allowances.
The American people will hear with
sadness and deep emotion that General Scott has withdrawn, from the active
control of the Army, while the President and a unanimous Cabinet express their
own and the nation's sympathy in his personal affliction, and their profound
sense of the important public services rendered by him to his country during
his long and brilliant career, among which will ever be gratefully
distinguished his faithful devotion to the Constitution, the Union, and the
Flag, when assailed by parricidal rebellion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The President is pleased to direct that Maj. Gen. George B.
McClellan assume the command of the Army of the United States. The headquarters
of the Army will be established in the city of Washington. All communications
intended for the Commanding General will hereafter be addressed direct to the
Adjutant-General. The duplicate returns, orders, and other papers, heretofore
sent to the assistant adjutant-general, headquarters of the Army, will be
discontinued.
By order of the
Secretary of War:
L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 5
(Serial No. 5), p. 639
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