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Still refusing [Rev. J. R. Stewart to pray for Lincoln] Captain Farnsworth ordered his sergeant to arrest and take him to the quarters of Colonel Farnsworth, of the same regiment, which order was immediately executed.

Ordered ... arrest .... order immediately executed. It's not Greek.

Maj. Gen Schenk writes that Archbishop Kenrick will appeal to STANTON. The volume is entitled, 'Correspondence, Orders, Etc, Relating to PRISONERS OF WAR AND STATE from December 1, 1862 to June 10, 1863'.

'Major Davis closed his [Mcfarland's] church because he [W. B. McFarland] refused to pray for the President.'

And yet another, where numerous churches were closed due to the ministers refusals to pray for the tyrant:

The rebel feeling in Virginia is utterly dead, and, with proper management, can never be resided. As evidence of this the recusant clergymen have offered to pray for the President of the United States, and to-morrow all the churches in Richmond will be reopened.

Still refusing [Rev. J. R. Stewart to pray for Lincoln] Captain Farnsworth ordered his sergeant to arrest and take him to the quarters of Colonel Farnsworth, of the same regiment, which order was immediately executed.

And almost immediately countermanded by a higher authority. You want us to believe that it was the Administration's policy to arrest priests who failed to offer prayers for the president when instead it looks like a couple of loose cannon acting on their own.