To RH Milroy From Schuyler Colfax Sept 6 1861

              no time to 
read over & correct 


 
                       South Bend, Ind. 

                        Sept. 6, 1861 


 
Dear General, 

                 I telegraphed you twice from 
Wash, but never heard a line for you 
by mail or telegraph while there.  supposed 
you was ordered off till I returned home. 
Reached So Bend at 3 A.M. today & 
found letters by the hundreds waiting me. 
Am trying however to get off the most important 
to you & others to day.  Now for my report. 


   1. After a great deal of labor & two refusals, 
 I succeeded with the aid of PostMaster Genl. Blair 
in getting leave of absence for Col. Moody from 
his Regiment to remain with the 9th.  I 
telegraphed him the fact & to day mail the official 
authority to him from Gen. Thomas, Adjt Genl. 


2. After two declinations, I coaxed Gen 
Ripley to allow you the 300 long range rifles, & 
he ordered them sent from Springfield to you