Special Message
01/28/1867
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As requested in this communication, General Grant is instructed in writing not to obey any order from the War Department...
My order to you had only reference to orders 'assumed to be issued by the direction of the President.'
You speak of my letter of the 31st ultimo as a reiteration of the 'many and gross misrepresentations' contained in certa...
In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 18th ultimo, relating to the report of Mr. Cowdin, I tr...