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Brunswick Dec 6th. 1865

My dear Gnl.

I have thought it best to send you a Book in which a portion of the papers I referred to are copied, & other authentic slips of paper pasted.

These are incidents of a merely formal nature which it would not be proper for me either to write myself, or (by that convenient process to which a flaming modesty so often resorts) to procure others to write for me. Time will bring them out. I prefer that my reputation should improve upon a better knowledge of facts, rather than diminish.

I observe that in your Report I am spoken of as absent from my Regt. occasionally without any remark to the effect that I was at that time comdg. [commanding] the Brigade. Indeed I am classed merely with Col. Gilmore as "absent." when in fact I was at that time leadg. my Brigade into Battle, & had my horse shot there.