With an order so clearly ambiguous as that of the President here
referred to, it was my duty to inform the President of my interpretation
of it and to abide by that interpretation until I received other orders.
Disclaiming any intention, now or heretofore, of disobeying any legal
order of the President distinctly communicated,
I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
U.S. GRANT, _General_.
[Footnote 46: See pp. 603-610.]
[Footnote 47: See p. 615.]
[Footnote 48: See pp. 603-605.]
WAR DEPARTMENT,
_Washington City, January 27, 1868_.
General U.S. GRANT,
_Commanding Army United States_.
GENERAL: The Secretary of the Treasury has requested this Department
to afford A.F. Randall, special agent of the Treasury Department, such
military aid as may be necessary to secure and forward for deposit
from Brownsville, Tex., to New Orleans public moneys in possession of
custom-house officers at Brownsville, and which are deemed insecure
at that place.
You will please give such directions as you may deem proper to the
officer commanding at Brownsville to carry into effect the request of
the Treasury Department, the instructions to be sent by telegraph to
Galveston, to the care of A.
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