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Orders Sending C. L. Vallandigham Beyond Military Lines. [Cipher.] UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH, May 10, 1863. By telegraph from Washington, 9.40 PM, 1863 TO MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Commanding Department of Ohio. SIR:—The President directs that without delay you send C. L. Vallandigham under secure guard to the Headquarters of General Rosecrans, to be put by him beyond our military lines; and in case of his return within our lines, he be arrested and kept in close custody for the term specified in his sentence. By order of the President: E. R. S. CANBY, Assistant Adjutant-General.