I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
U.S. GRANT, _General_.
[Footnote 49: See p. 613.]
HEADQUARTERS ARMY UNITED STATES,
_January 30, 1868_.
Respectfully forwarded to the Secretary of War for his information.
U.S. GRANT, _General_.
_The President to General Grant_.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 31, 1868_.
General U.S. GRANT,
_Commanding United States Armies_.
GENERAL: I have received your communication of the 28th instant,[50]
renewing your request of the 24th,[49] that I should repeat in a written
form my verbal instructions of the 19th instant, viz, that you obey no
order from the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War unless you have
information that it was issued by the President's directions.
In submitting this request (with which I complied on the 29th
instant[51]) you take occasion to allude to recent publications in
reference to the circumstances connected with the vacation by yourself
of the office of Secretary of War _ad interim_, and with the view of
correcting statements which you term "gross misrepresentations" give
at length your own recollection of the facts under which, without the
sanction of the President, from whom you had received and accepted the
appointment, you yielded the Department of War to the present incumbent.
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