Colonel Edward D. Townsend to Major-General Ambrose Burnside, June 10, 1863

WAR DEPARTMENT,         

Washington City, June 4, 1863.

Major-General BURNSIDE, U.S. Volunteers,

Cincinnati, Ohio:

A note, of which the following is a copy, has just been received by this Department from the President:

EXECUTIVE MANSION,         

Washington, June 4, 1863.

Hon. SECRETARY OF WAR:

MY DEAR SIR: I have received additional dispatches which, with former ones, induce me to believe we should revoke or suspend the order suspending the Chicago Times, and if you concur in opinion, please have it done.

Yours, truly,

A. LINCOLN.

In conformity with the views of the President, you will revoke the order suspending the publication of the Chicago Times.*

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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*See Burnside's order, Series I, Vol. XXIII, Part II, p. 386; also Trmnbull and Arnold to Lincoln, ibid., p. 385.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume 3 (Serial No. 124), p. 252