Executive Order—General Orders: 104
12/27/1867
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It is desired and advised that all communications in writing intended for the executive department of this Government and relating to public...
The suspension has not been revoked, and the business of the War Department is conducted by the Secretary ad interim.
The mutual confidence and general accord which should exist in such a relation had ceased.
But he goes further, and plainly intimates what he means by 'public considerations of a high character,' and this is nothing else than his l...