To RH Milroy From CT Christensen Dec 15 1864

              HEADQUARTERS 
 
        Military Division of West Mississippi 
 
        New Orleans, La.  December 15th, 1864 
 
 
 
Major General R. H. Milroy 
 
Tullahoma, Tenn. 
 
        Sir, 
 
 
 
       I have the honor by 
direction of the Major General Commanding, who is 
confined to his quarters in consequence of wounds, 
to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of 
the 17th ultimo, and to say in reply that he has 
already a surplus of Major Generals, from the fact 
that a large portion of his command have within 
the last few months been transferred to the Armies of 
the Potomac and the Tennessee, Major Generals Hurlbut, 
Steele, and Herron are now awaiting assignment; if it 
had been otherwise the General would only have been 
too happy to have applied for your transfer to his Div- 
ision.  The previous letter to which you refer, the 
General directs me to say, has never reached him. 
 
 
 
I am Sir, very respectfully 
 
your obedient servant 
 
C.T.  Christensen 
 
Lt.Col. Asst. Adjutant General