WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJT. GEN.'S OFFICE,
Washington, November
5, 1862.
By direction of the President of the United States, it is
ordered that Major-General McClellan be relieved from the command of the Army
of the Potomac, and that Major-General Burnside take the command of that army.
By order of the
Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
19, Part 2 (Serial No. 28), p. 545
