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Major General Edward O. C. Ord to Abraham Lincoln, April 13, 1865

RICHMOND, VA., April 13, 1865.
His Excellency A. LINCOLN,
        President of the United States:

Copy of order to be published in the city paper to-morrow, April 14: Owing to recent events the call for the reassembling of the gentlemen recently acting as the legislature of Virginia is rescinded. Should any of the gentlemen come to the city under the notice of the reassembling, already published, they will be furnished with passports to return to their homes.

E. O. C. ORD,        
Major-General.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 46, Part 3 (Serial No. 97), p. 735

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