GENERAL ORDERS, 
No. 78. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General’s Office, 
Washington, March 31, 1863. 
The action of Major General McClellan, then commanding the Army 
of the Potomac, in remitting the sentence of a General Court Martial 
in the case of Captain Robert Jackson, 36th New York Volunteers, as 
published in General Orders, No. 173, dated October 24, 1862, from the 
Headquarters Army of the Potomac, having been submitted to the 
President under the 89th article of War, he approves the order of 
General McClellan, and directs that it be carried into effect. 
By order of the Secretary of War: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General.