To RH Milroy From Ryan Payne Mar 24 1865

              No Ind Post 

			Decherd Tenn. Mar 14, 1865 


 
To Maj. Gen. Milroy 

Comdg. Def’s N. C. R. R. 


	 
 
		General, 

			In obedience to your 
order of this 18th inst I beg leave to report that the 
amount of property in the possession of Mr. Churchman 
to which Mrs. Rutledge claims title in her own right 
is very inconsiderable, and its secrecy did  not constitute 
the object of her application to Gen. Thomas’ headquarters. 
What she desired was an order to prevent him from 
conveying away his own property until she could 
have an opportunity to establish her claim before the 
Civil authorities, so that she might then secure it. 
Her real claim uses a money demand, for property 
sold by him as her agent under instructions to sell 
for cash only, and for rents collected by him from 
estate which she claims to own, which rents were to be 
paid in kind, and sold by him for money.

 
The personal property of hers, which was sold by him 
exclusive of that which he received for rents, she acquired  
before, or at about the time of her marriage. 


The real estate out of which the rents arose was conveyed