To Maj Gen Milroy From H L Sibley Mar 10 1863

              Romney, West Va. 
                                       March 10th, 1863 
Major General R. H. Milroy 
Winchester, West Va. 
		Dear Sir: 
			I hope you will  
pardon the liberty taken in thus addressing you, for  
upon learning of your confirmation as Major General,  
by the senate of the United States, I felt that I could  
not do less than to express to you my gratification at  
what I regard as so auspicious an event. 
	Permit me to say that I  
look upon your promotion as a proud triumph of  
merit and well-earned renown, over the haughty  
selfishness and aristocratic exclusiveness of the  
“Regular” system, in our army.  It is a glorious  
victory over stupid prejudice, and the “Scientific”  
bigotry of “book-worm” warriors.  As such I hail  
it as the dawning of better days, and as another