To President Lincoln From RH Milroy July 3 1863

              Baltimore, MD 
 
July 3rd 1863 
 
 
 
His Excellency 
 
Abraham Lincoln 
 
President U.S. 
 
 
 
Dear Sir, 
 
 
 
	Yours of the 
 29th was only received today. And I must  
beg your indulgence for the statement of a few 
brief facts and arguments by why of answer to 
the “Pre Facia” cases which the few 
imperfect facts that have come to your 
knowledge have made out against me.  
 
 
 
You 
say I “Have just lost a division,” I had less then 
7,000 effective men when I left Winchester 
and over 5,000 got through and are in 
ready to do battle for our good cause. 
 
 
 
	You say “Have scarcely seen any thing from me 
at any time that did not contain imputations against 
my superiors and chafing against the part they had 
 assigned me” I plead in part guilty to this allig- 
ation. I have always promptly obeyed orders. 
 
 
 
But my Scotch-Irish blood and Hoosier Raising 
have sometimes betrayed me into hasty and perhaps imp- 
ropper expression of impatience when I saw a good 
chance to strike the Rebs, but felt myself restrained by 
orders of a superior perhaps a hundred miles away. 
An instance in point last springs then Reb. genl.