To Maj BH Polk From RH Milroy Aug 30 1864

              Head.  qtrs. Def. N. and C. R. R. 
 
                                         Tullahoma, Tennessee 
 
                                              August 30th 1864 
 
 
  
  Major, 
 
 
          I am solicited by the merchants 
of this place to respectfully request of  
Maj. Gen. Rousseau to use his influence 
or authority (whichever he may and can use 
most efficiently), to have extended and 
continued to them, the privalege of obtaining 
and selling goods or trade permits, 
which can recently, for some reason to 
them unknown, been withdrawn from 
them.  I can say for these gentlemen, 
that I know them to be genuinely loyal 
to the Govt. of the U.S. some of them have 
served as guides and scouts for our 
armies, and have given every information 
and assistance in their power to union  
commanders here and, most of them have 
been refugees and suffered much from 
rebel persecution.  There are many union