Letter
[General Orders No. 100.], December 17, 1864
[General Orders No. 100.]
Headquarters Department of the East,New York City, December 17, 1864.
The President of the United States having disapproved of that portion of department General Orders No. 97, current series, which instructs all military commanders on the frontier, in certain cases therein specified, to cross the boundary line between the United States and Canada, and directs pursuit into neutral territory, the said instruction is hereby revoked.
In case, therefore, of any future marauding expedition into our territory from Canada, military commanders on the frontiers will report to these headquarters for orders before crossing the boundary line in pursuit of the guilty parties.
By command of Major General Dix:
D. T. VAN BUREN, Colonel and Assistant Adjutant General.
Official:
G. VON EICKSTEDT,Aide-de-Camp.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C.