Andrew Johnson said...

In reply to your communication, I have deemed it proper, in order to prevent further misunderstanding, to make this simp...

It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.

Until further orders from the President, you will assign no officer to the permanent command of the Military Division of...

For these reasons, thus briefly and imperfectly stated, and for others, of which want of time forbids the enumeration, I...