washington, December 31, 1860.
My Dear Sir: I have received and accepted your resignation
of the office of Secretary of War, and not wishing to impose upon you the task
of performing its mere routine duties, which you have so kindly offered to do,
I have authorized Postmaster-General Holt to administer the affairs of the
Department until your successor shall be appointed.
Yours very
respectfully,
(Signed)
james Buchanan,
To Hon. John B. Floyd.
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 151; D. Appleton & Co., The American Annual Cyclopӕdia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1861, Volume 1, p. 701
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