Selected Correspondance of Abraham Lincoln 1863 Orders Sending C. L. Vallandigham Beyond Military Lines
by Abraham Lincoln
[Cipher.]
UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, May 10, 1863.
By telegraph from Washington, 9.40 PM, 1863
TO MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE,
Commanding Department of Ohio.
SIR:--The President directs that without delay you send C. L.
Vallandigham under secure guard to the Headquarters of General
Rosecrans, to be put by him beyond our military lines; and in case of
his return within our lines, he be arrested and kept in close custody
for the term specified in his sentence.
By order of the President:
E. R. S. CANBY, Assistant Adjutant-General.
