Edwin M. Stanton to Colonel George F. Shepley, June 10, 1862

WAR DEPARTMENT,                     

Washington City, D.C., June 10, 1862.

Col. GEORGE F. SHEPLEY,

New Orleans:

DEAR SIR: I have the pleasure to transmit herewith your appointment and instructions as Military Governor of Louisiana. No one can be more conscious than yourself of the great importance and responsibility of the official trust thus committed to you by the President. And I will only add that with full confidence in the wisdom and success of your administration, and with the purpose to afford you every aid in the power of this Department,

I remain, truly, yours,

EDWIN M. STANTON,                   

Secretary of War.

P. S.—You will also find inclosed herewith copy of the memorandum of a conversation between Lord Lyons and the Secretary of State onthe 30th ultimo, to which I beg leave to call your attention.*

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* See p. 130.

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[Inclosure No. 1.]

Edwin M. Stanton to Colonel George F. Shepley, June 10, 1862

 [Sub-inclosure No, 1. ]

Edwin M. Stanton to William H. Seward, June 3, 1862

[Sub-inclosure No. 2.]

William H. Seward to Edwin M. Stanton, June 3, 1862

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume 2 (Serial No. 123), p. 141