EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, April 23, 1864.
HONORABLE SECRETARY OF WAR.
MY DEAR SIR: According to our understanding with Major-General Frank P. Blair at the time he took his seat in Congress last winter, he now asks to withdraw his resignation as major-general, then tendered, and be sent to the field. Let this be done. Let the order sending him be such as shown me to-day by the Adjutant-General, only dropping from it the names of Maguire and Tompkins.
Yours, truly,
A. LINCOLN.
[Indorsement.]
APRIL 23, 1864.
Referred to the Adjutant-General.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.