Letter
JOLINE, Major and A to Major General Robinson, February 7, 1865
Major Joline to Major General Robinson
Headquarters Department of the East, New York City, February 7, 1865.
General: The commanding general has information that a man named Briggs has been for some time past, and is now, engaged in organizing a body of men at or near Cape Vincent with the avowed object of making a raid upon Kingston, in retaliation for that upon St. Albans.
The commanding general directs that you make immediate investigation as to this allegation, and that your utmost efforts be used to prevent the outrage, if the same appears to be contemplated.
By command of Major General Dix:
CHARLES O. JOLINE, Major and A. D. C.
Major General J. C. Robinson, Commanding Northern District of Mew York, Albany.
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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.