The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 6
1863 Orders Sending C. L. Vallandigham Beyond Military Lines.
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UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, May 10, 1863.
By telegraph from Washington, 9.40 PM, 1863
TO MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE,
Commanding Department of Ohio.
SIR:--The President directs that without delay you send C. L. Vallandigham under secure guard to the Headquarters of General Rosecrans, to be put by him beyond our military lines; and in case of his return within our lines, he be arrested and kept in close custody for the term specified in his sentence.
By order of the President:
E. R. S. CANBY, Assistant Adjutant-General.
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