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LINCOLN RELIEVES MCCLELLAN OF COMMAND
LINCOLN RELIEVES MCCLELLAN OF COMMAND
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LINCOLN RELIEVES MCCLELLAN OF COMMAND War-date War Department document 1p. 8vo. being General Order No. 182 signed in type by Assistant Adjutant General E. D. TOWNSEND Adjutant General's Office Washington Nov. 5 1862 reading in full: ""By direction of the President of the United States it is ordered that Major General McCLELLAN be relieved from command of the Army of the Potomac and that Major General BURNSIDE take the command of the Army. By order of the Secretary of War…"". From the regimental papers of the 17th Conn. Vols. with a contemporary note at top indicating that the document was: ""read at dress parade Dec. 3 1862."" Minor stains and punch holes indicating it was contained in the regimental general orders book.
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