Brigadier General Edward D. Townsend to Major General Oliver O. Howard, Washington, D.C., April 17, 1866

    Source citation
    Reprinted in Edward McPherson (ed.), A Handbook of Politics for 1868 (Washington, DC: Philp and Solomons, 1868), 17.
    Type
    Military record
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    John Osborne, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    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.
    ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT,
    Washington, April 17, 1866
    The President's proclamation does not remove martial law, or operate in any way upon the Freedmen's Bureau in the exercise of its legitimate jurisdiction.  It is not expedient, however, to resort to military tribunal in any case where justice can be attained through the medium of civil authority.
    E.D. TOWNSEND, A.A.G.
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