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Fitz-John Porter Court-Martial. Indorsement On The Proceedings And Sentence HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, WASHINGTON, January 13, 1863. In compliance with the Sixty-fifth Article of War, these whole proceedings are transmitted to the Secretary of War, to be laid before the President of the United States. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief. January 21, 1863. The foregoing proceedings, findings, and sentence in the foregoing case of Major-General Fitz-John Porter are approved and confirmed, and it is ordered that the said Fitz-John Porter be, and he hereby is, cashiered and dismissed from the service of the United States as a major-general of volunteers, and as colonel and brevet brigadier-general in the regular service of the United States, and forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States. A. LINCOLN.