To Nashville HQ From RH Milroy Nov 13 1864

              with 11-13-1864 
 
 
 
It being reported at these head quarters that the 
bread supplies at the Government bakeries of 
this city & vicinity is of an inferior quality 
often some badly mixed, lumpy, musty, black 
or otherwise unfit for use & injurous to the health  of 
the soldiers & government Employees & highly 
detrimental to the good of the service.  
 
 
 
And “it being the intention of the government 
to furnish flour of the most wholesome 
quatity to for the use of her soldiers & Employ- 
ees, and as those who purchase flour  
and permitted to pay & do pay the 
highest market price for good flour 
and it bring therefore self evident that if 
bread of a bad quality is furnished the 
soldiers & employees of the government it must 
be occasional by  either by bad flour or  
negligence and improper management 
in the baking and as in either case it  
betrays a criminality that warents the  
severest punishment. That the infamous  
sentless scoundrels who are to blame for this bad 
quality of bread. 
 
 
 
Rousseau took Comd. & return me 
 
 
 
(note on back) 
Order intended 
to be issued about bread 
at Nashville