To Milroy From President Lincoln March 10 1863

              Recorder. Volume 17. Page 109
 

Adjt. Genl.’s Office,
 

March 10, 1863
 

J. Thomas
 

Adjt. Genl.

 

 

	THE
 

PRESIDENT of the United States of AMERICA,
 

	E PLURIBUS UNUM

 

 

		To all who shall see these presents greeting:
 

	Know ye that reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism, valor ,fidelity  and
 

abilities of     Robert H. Milroy,    I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent
 

of the Senate, do appoint him  Major General of Volunteers,
 

in the service of the United States: to rank as such from the  twenty – ninth    day of   November
    

eighteen hundred and     sixty two.        He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty
 

of      Major General             by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging
 

	And I do strictly charge, and require all Officers and Soldiers under his command to be obedi-
 

ent to his orders as       Major General.                And he is to observe and follow such orders, and di-
 

rections, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future President of the United States of
 

America, or the General, or other superior Officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of
 

War.  This commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States, for
 

the time being.
 

	GIVEN under my hand at the city of Washington, this    Tenth     day of     March    in the year
 

		of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and   Sixty three  and in the   eigty seventh  year
 

		of the Independence of the United States.

 

 

By the President,			(signed) Abraham Lincoln
 

	(signed)	Edwin M. Stanton
 

		Secretary of War.

 

 

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