WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City,
September 27, 1863 — 1
p.m.
WILLIAM P. SMITH, Esq.,
Baltimore :
You have done right. Order your men to disregard every order
or direction but your own. Report immediately to me any officer that presumes
to interfere with you, and let me know who gave the order referred to in your
telegram.
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. 167
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