Saturday, December 2, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to William P. Smith, September 27, 1863 – 1 p.m.

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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