Brigadier-General Lorenzo Thomas to Governor Nathaniel S. Berry, March 13, 1863

War Department, Adjutant-General's Office,

Washington, March 13, 1863.

Special Order, No. 119.

(Extract.)

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34. By direction of the President, the following officers are hereby dismissed from the service of the United States.

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Lieutenant A. J. Edgerly, Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, for circulating Copperhead tickets, and doing all in his power to promote the success of the rebel cause in this State.

By order of the Secretary of War.

L. Thomas, Adjutant-General.

To the Governor of New Hampshire.

SOURCE: Thomas M. Cook & Thomas W. Knox, Editors, Public Record: Including Speeches, Messages, Proclamations, Official Correspondence, and Other Public Utterances of Horatio Seymour; from the Campain of 1856 to the Present Time, p. 109