Order
E.D. Townsend to Ulysses S. Grant, March 21, 1865
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington City, March 21, 1865—10 p.m..
Lieutenant-General GRANT: I have ordered General Crook to be relieved and report to you for assignment to command, and have directed paymasters to be sent down to pay the colored troops. The reason for the difference was that at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury the troops were ordered to be paid by corps in their numerical order. We have not money to pay all at once, but can pay them progressively. Secretary of War. ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE, ; Washington, March 21, 1865. Lieut. Gen. U. S. GRANT, General-in-Chief, City Point, Va.: General Crook is now at Cumberland, and has received the order announcing his exchange and directing him to assume command of his department,
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Location: Washington City. Summary: E. D. Townsend informs Lieutenant-General Grant of General Crook's reassignment and the progressive payment plan for colored troops due to limited funds and Treasury Department instructions.
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Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 46, Part 1
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