To President Lincoln From RH Milroy Aug 17 1863

              Washington, D.C. 
 
                                    August 17th 1863 
 
 
 
To his excellency 
 
       Abraham Lincoln 
 
                 President of the United States 
 
 
 
Sir, 
 
 
 
      I have the honor to submit the following 
statement. 
 
 
 
sometime subsequent to the evacuation 
of Winchester I was deprived of my command 
and placed in arrest, I learned from a letter  
addressed me at Baltimore by you, that this  
originated in my refusal to obey my superior  
officers, I asked for a court of inquiry, and on 
 the 4th day of August 1863, special order No 346  
calling such a court was issued from the war dept. by your command. 
 
 
 
  The detail of this court as originally  
constituted consisted of Maj. Gen. Hitchcock,  
Brig. Gen. Barry and Brig. Gen. Abercrombie  
and Capt. R.N. Scott Judge Advocate, subsequently  
Maj. Gen. Hitchcock was relieved and Brig. 
De Russey detailed in his place.