. A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1902 . the flag whenassailed by parricidal rebellion. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The President is pleased to direct that Major-General George B. Mc-Clellan assume the command of the Army of the United States. Theheadquarters of the Army will be established in the city of communications intended for the Commanding General will hereafterbe addressed direct to the Adjutant-General. The duphcate returns,orders, and other papers heretofore sent to the Assistant Adjutant-Gen-eral, Headquarters of the Army, will be discontinued.


. A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1902 . the flag whenassailed by parricidal rebellion. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The President is pleased to direct that Major-General George B. Mc-Clellan assume the command of the Army of the United States. Theheadquarters of the Army will be established in the city of communications intended for the Commanding General will hereafterbe addressed direct to the Adjutant-General. The duphcate returns,orders, and other papers heretofore sent to the Assistant Adjutant-Gen-eral, Headquarters of the Army, will be discontinued. By order of the Secretary of War: ^ THOMAvS A djn ta n t- Gen eral. Executive Mansion,Washington, Novefnber ^, 1861. The governor of the State of Missouri, acting under the direction ofthe convention of that State, proposes to the Government of the UnitedStates that he will a military force, to ser\-e within the State asState militia during the war there, to cooperate with the troops in theservice of the United States in repelling the invasion of the State and. ^d Abraham Li}icoln 41 suppressing rebellion therein; the said State militia to be embodied andto be held in the camp and in the field, drilled, disciplined, and gov-erned according to the Arm}- Regulations and subject to the Articles ofWar; the said State militia not to be ordered out of the State except forthe immediate defense of the State of Missouri, but to cooperate with thetroops in the service of the United States in militarj^ operations withinthe State or necessary to its defense, and when ofl&cers of the State mili-tia act with ofiBcers in the service of the United States of the same gradethe officers of the United States ser\-ice shall command the combinedforce; the State militia to be armed, equipped, clothed, subsisted, trans-ported, and paid by the United States during such time as they shall beactually engaged as an embodied military force in ser\ice in accordancewith Regulations of the United State


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