Saturday, December 2, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General Carl Schurz, September 27, 1863 – 9:40 p.m.

WAR DEPARTMENT,         
September 27, 1863 9.40 p.m.
Maj. Gen. CARL SCHURZ,
Fairmont:

Major-General Hooker has the orders of this Department to relieve you from command and put under arrest any officer who undertakes to delay or interfere with the orders and regulations of the railroad officers in charge of the transportation of troops.

EDWIN M. STANTON,       
Secretary of War.

SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 29, Part 1 (Serial No. 48), p. 169

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