of Ohio to Edwin M. Stanton, October 27, 1865
Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,
Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. :
Sir: I inclose an application of Maj. L. G. Marshall, commanding Eleventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, to have his regiment mustered out of the U. S. service.*
I have already, by my letter of the 16th ultimo, expressed so fully my views of this whole case — the detention of volunteers in a service not contemplated by themselves when they enlisted, nor yet author¬ ized by the acts of Congress — that I do not think it now necessary to repeat my reasons for these opinions and their consequent demand.
I should have been pleased to have been informed of the views and intentions of your Department in regard to the Ohio Volunteers now in the service, in order to have conformed my own action, if con¬ sistent with duty to these citizens, to the designs and convenience of your Department. As it is, having failed apparently in procuring an assent to my demand for the prompt discharge of all, I can only for¬ ward their applications in detail.
Very respectfully, CHARLES ANDERSON",
By the President of the United States of America:
a proclamation.
Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God, during the year which is
scourge of civil war, and to permit us to secure the blessings of peace,
unity, and harmony, with a great enlargement of civil liberty;
And whereas, our Heavenly Father has also during the year gra¬