To Invitation Committee From RH Milroy July 1 1865

              Tullahoma Tenn. 

                                                               July 1, 1865 


Gentlemen 

     Your kind invitation of 
the 12th Ult. to be present at 
the celebratio of the 4th of July at the 
Tippecanoe Battle ground is cited.  It would 
afford me great pleasure to accept this 
invitation, but in consequence of important 
changed in the different commands in this 
Department it would not be propper for 
me to be absent from my command.  Tho I 
cannot be personally present I will be present in feeling to participate with 
my fellow citizens of my native state in the 
celebration of the glorious anniversary of  
freedom and to rejoice with them in the  
return of permanent peace.  The 2nd birth 
of our nation.  The reestablishment of our 
blood cemented Union on a foundation as 
lasting as man and the final demonstr- 
ation of the great problem that man 
under right conditions is capable  of self 
government & that the great principles