HEADQUARTERS VALLEY
DISTRICT,
Winchester, Va.,
January 31, 1862.
Hon. J.P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of War:
SIR: Your order requiring me to direct General Loring to
return with his command to Winchester immediately has been received and
promptly complied with.
With such interference in my command I cannot expect to be
of much service in the field, and accordingly respectfully request to be
ordered to report for duty to the superintendent of the Virginia Military
Institute at Lexington, as has been done in the case of other professors.
Should this application not be granted, I respectfully request that the President
will accept my resignation from the Army.
I am, sir, very
respectfully, your obedient servant,
T. J. JACKSON,
Major-General, P. A. C. S.
[Indorsement.]
HEADQUARTERS,
Centreville, February 7, 1862.
Respectfully forwarded, with great regret. I don't know how
the loss of this officer can be supplied. General officers are much wanted in
this department.
J. E. JOHNSTON,
General.
SOURCES: 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. 1053; Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of
General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 229
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