SIR: Your resignation has been accepted by the President of the United States, to take effect this day.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAS. A. HARDIE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
[Telegram.]
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, D.C., March 15, 1864.
Lieutenant-General GRANT,
Nashville, Tenn.:
General McPherson having been assigned to the command of a department, could not General Frank Blair, without difficulty or detriment to the service, be assigned to command the corps he commanded a while last autumn?
A. LINCOLN.
[Telegram.]
NASHVILLE, TENN., March 16, 1864—10 a.m.