To Gen WT Sherman From Gen Milroy July 25 1864

              Copy of a letter to 

Maj. Genl. W. T. Sherman
 
Head Quarters Dist. Of Tenn. 

Nashville, Tenn. 

July 25th, 1864 

General,  

	I have the honor to request of the  
Major General commanding the military district  
of the Mississippi, permission to prohibit  
from circulation in this district the following  
named newspapers, Viz, “Cincinnati Inquirer,”  
“Freemans Journal” (N. Y.), “Metropolitan Record”  
(N. Y.), “Chicago Times,” “Louisville Democrat,”  
“Louisville Journal,” and “Nashville Press.” 
All of said newspapers are circalative to  
some extent for this district and for the  
following reasons among others, the good of  
the service and the best interests of our  
country demands, if not their suppression  
at least the stoppage of their circulation  
among our soldiers, and in the states  
that are, or have been in rebellion  
against the government, and when disloyalty  
or an unhealthy loyalty prevails. 


	1st The morale of the soldier depends in  
a great measure upon his faith in the  
justice of the cause for which he is battling: anything  
that tends to weaken this faith and make  
him believe that his cause is weaken are unjust, is dem- 
oralizing, and injures his efficiency for service.