To Hugh McCulloch From RH Milroy July 3 1865

              Tallahassee, Tenn. 
                      July 3rd 1865 
 
Hon Hugh M. Culloch 
           Secretary of the Treas. 
 
                                             Dear Sir, 
Your kind letter of the 23rd ult. is rec’d  
& I thank you very sincerely for your 
expressions of friendship which will 
never be forgotten by me – I would not 
tresspass further upon your valuable 
time had I any other friend so 
reliable & impartial as you at Washington 
or elsewhere.  I supposed at the time I 
wrote you that the President would 
appoint Military instead of provisional 
govenors for the rebellious states.  I 
should have asked for the Military 
Com. instead of the Military Governorships 
of one of those states. The President  
could have directed Gen Thomas 
to have given me comd. of one of those  
states as he did in the case of Gen 
Stedman who happened to be his particular 
friend & was on at Washington.  Thomes has 
five states in his comd which he has organized into 
Departments & has placed Generals in 
comd. of these Departments all of 
whom I outrank except Stoneman 
who bears rank of the same date with