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of Virginia is rescinded.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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