To Gen Grant From RH Milroy Nov 17 1864

              Private         
 
 
                      Tullahoma 
 
                                          Nov. 17 – 1864 
 
 
 
General 
 
 
 
            I most respectfully and 
earnestly ask to be assigned to active 
field duty in Va. if possible, but 
any where that may suit your 
pleasure for the following reasons 
 
 
 
   I was educated a soldier and earned my present rank from 
that of Capt. and have had no fair 
opportunity to prove that I am 
worthy of the promotion. 
 
 
 
  I was deprived of command in Va. 
in a manner – at a time and under 
circumstances most painful to my 
feelings and of the most cruel injustice. 
 
 
 
My comd. here ( a scattered station 
R.R. guard) is of less dignity and 
importance than that of many 
Brigadiers and Cols. in the service and will 
afford me no opportunity of wiping 
out the burning stigma of my arrest. 
 
 
 
   All the Generals under or with whom I 
have served and all that know any thing