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The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
ietam campaigns as human endurance would bear. The committee give the first correct history of the "resignation" of Burnside. It appears that after the battle at Fredericksburg he issued "Order No. S." dismissing some officers from the service, and sentencing some deserters to be that. --This order Lincoln refused to approve: Thereupon Gen. Burnside again insisted that his resignation be accepted. This the President declined to do and, after some urging, Gen. Burnside consented to tGen. Burnside consented to take a leave of absence for thirty days, with the understanding that at the end of that time he should be assigned to duty, as he deemed it improper to hold a commission as Major General and receive his pay without rendering service therefore. Gen. Gen. Burnside objected to the wording of the order which relieved him from his command and which stated that it was at his own request, as being unjust to him and unfounded in act but upon the representation that any other order would do injury to the ca