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elity. You remarked to me in July, that, while you were unwilling to reverse General Butler's orders, and send back these officers to their regiment, you would, on my recommendation, restore them to their rank as commissioned officers, and assign them to regiments outside of General Butler's department. I have accordingly revised my inquiries, in order that I might not carelessly use the confidence reposed in me, and do therefore make the following recommendations; viz., that Captains George B. Proctor and George Y. Allen, and First-Lieutenants George L. Seagrave, Allen Parker, Edward Townsend, and Leonard Y. Gaskell, be liberated from their present unlawful confinement and duress, that their swords be returned to them, and that they be assigned to duty or recommissioned as the dates of their original commissions respectively. These gentlemen, I am informed, are held as prisoners, in the assumed capacity as privates, in assumed contempt of military authority, and duly committe