Monday, October 24, 2016

Abraham Lincoln’s Order No. 3: April 24, 1861

ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, April 24th, 1861

ORDER No. 3

GENERAL B. F. BUTLER, being the senior officer present, will take command of this Department of troops assembled at Annapolis.

By order of the PRESIDENT

SOURCE: Jessie Ames Marshall, Editor, Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1860 – June 1862, p. 35

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