On the 4th of July he telegraphed directly to President Lincoln, recalling the honorable service in which he had been engaged just one year before.

Reminding the President of the pressing need which the country then had "of the services of every willing soldier," he begged to be sent to the field.

With manly dignity he declared, "I am utterly unconscious of any act, word, or design which should make me less eligible to an honorable place among the soldiers of the Republic than upon any day of my past life." GENERAL STONE'S CASE IN CONGRESS.
Meanwhile the subject had forced itself upon the attention of Congress.

On the 24th of March, Senators Latham and McDougall of California, the first a supporter of Breckinridge in 1860, the other a supporter of Douglas, with Aaron A.Sargent, representative from the same State and a most radical Republican, united in an energetic memorial to Secretary Stanton, on behalf of General Stone as a citizen of California.

They stated that "the long arrest of General Stone without military trial or inquiry has led to complaints from many quarters.