Abraham Lincoln - The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln-VOL. VI (Chap. 1.239) lyrics

To General S. R. Curtis. Executive Mansion, Washington, December 10, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL CURTIS, St. Louis, Missouri: Please suspend, until further order, all proceeding on the order made by General Schofield, on the twenty-eighth day of August last, for a**essing and collecting from secessionists and Southern sympathizers the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, etc., and in the meantime make out and send me a statement of facts pertinent to the question, together with your opinion upon it. A. LINCOLN.