Abraham Lincoln - The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln-VOL. VI (Chap. 2.98) lyrics

War Department, May 20, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL A. B. BURNSIDE, Commanding Department of Ohio, Cincinnati, O. Your despatch of three o'clock this afternoon to the Secretary of War has been received and shown to the President. He thinks the best disposition to be made of Vallandigham is to put him beyond the lines, as directed in the order transmitted to you last evening, and directs that you execute that order by sending him forward under secure guard without delay to General Rosecrans. By order of the President: ED. R. S. CANBY, Brigadier-General