GDG- Fitz-John Porter hereby is, cashiered

[Dennis Lawrence]

Order Approving Sentence of Fitz-John Porter [1]
January 21, 1863

The foregoing proceedings, findings, and sentence in the foregoing case of 
Major-General Fitz-John Porter, are approved and confirmed; and it is 
ordered that the said Fitz-John Porter be, and he hereby is, cashiered and 
dismissed from the service of the United States as a Major General of 
Volunteers, and as Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General in the Regular 
Service of the United States, and forever disqualified from holding any 
office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States.

January 21, 1863. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.


After the Battle of Second Manassas, Porter was blamed by Pope for his 
defeat. Pope claimed that Porter had been insubordinate, and during the 
fall of 1862, after the Antietam crisis, Pope preferred court-martial 
charges against Porter. The primary allegation was insubordination. Because 
the Lincoln administration was (a) greatly embarrassed by the failure of 
its hand-picked commander Pope, and (b) enraged at McClellan's failure to 
pursue Lee into Virginia after Antietam, it want
http://www.civilwarhome.com/court.htm


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Abraham Lincoln  reply to South Carolina Commissioners