Letter of Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Morton

Author: United States. War Dept.
Title: The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880 - 1901)
Other Title: Official records of the Union and Confederate armies
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Location: Series 3, Volume 3, Page 824

Copied from: Cornell University's MoA Multivolume Monographs, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880 - 1901)

WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington, September 19,1863.

Governor MORTON,
Indianapolis:

You are authorized to release the 200 Catholic Confederates mentioned in your telegraph, and the colonel of the Thirty-fifth Indiana is authorized to enlist and muster them into his regiment, but without premium, advance pay, or bounty.

The commandant of Camp Morton on presentation of this telegram and your request will discharge them, making out a muster roll or descriptive list and returning it to the Commissary-General of Prisoners.

EDWIN M. STANTON
Secretary of War.

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