To RH Milroy From Simon Cameron Sept 3 1861

              WAR DEPARTMENT, 


 
					Washington, September 3rd 1861. 


 
Sir: 

	You are hereby informed that the president of the United 
States has appointed you Brigadier General of Volunteers 


 
 
in the service of the United States, to rank as such from the Third 
day of September, on thousand eight hundred and sixty – one. 
Should the Senate, at their next session, advise and consent therets; 
you will be commissioned accordingly. 


	Immediately on receipt hereof, please to communicate to this 
Department, through the Adjutant General’s Office, your acceptance 
or non=acceptance of said appointment; and, with your letter of 
acceptance, return to the Adjutant General of the Army the OATH 
herewith enclosed, properly filled up, SUBSCRIBED and ATTESTED, reporting at 
the same time your AGE, RESIDENCE when appointed, and the STATE in which 
you were BORN. 


	Should you accept, you will at once report, by letter, for 
orders, to the General in Chief 


 
					Simon Cameron 

Secretary of war. 


 
Brig. Genl. Robert H. Milroy.				 

	U. S. Volunteers. 


 
 
 
(on back of page) 
Letter from Simon 
Cameron Secy. of War 
informing me of my 
appointment as 
Brig. Genl. U.S.V.