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The Trial of Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham: By a Military Commission: and the Proceedings Under His Application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio (Cincinnati, OH: Rickey and Carroll, 1863), 34.
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The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
[By Telegraph from Washington, 9.40 P. M., 1863.]
To MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Commanding Department of the Ohio :
SIR—The President directs that, without delay, you send C. L. Vallandigham, under secure guard, to the Head-quarters of General Rosecrans, to be put by him beyond our military lines, and that in case of his return within our lines he be arrested and kept in close custody for the term specified in his sentence.
Please acknowledge receipt of this, and time when received,
by request of BRIG.-GEN. CANBY.
