To Major (?) From R H Milroy May 3 1865

              1            Tullahoma Tenn   May 3. 1865 
      
       Major 
          I have the honor (pro forma)  (stricken: without 
any pleasure) to report as follows.  Upon my 
arrival here from Nashville on the 22nd inst. 
Capt Williams of Maj the staff of the Maj. Genl. 
Comdg. the Middle Dist. Tenn (who had come down 
in the same train with me) called at my head 
quarters & exhibited to me a number of papers of 
which the enclosed are copies in part which he kindly 
permitted me to take.  Also an order endorsed 
on the envelope directing him the Capt. to make a thorough (stricken: fully) 
investigation of the charges & complaints (stricken: mentioned) 
made & contained in said papers against me 
by various persons.  the most serious of which 
were (stricken: contained in) made by Lt. Col. Cliff of the 
5th Tenn. Cav. & m Chadd a former 
employee in the (stricken: qr Ma) quarter master department 
at this post. (stricken: The) I have never shuned 
but on the contrary have ever courted the 
most thorough investigation into all my 
acts office or otherwise as I am well convinced that the 
more closely my acts & motives are 
scrutinized the more closely it will 
appear that I have been activated 
alone for the good of my country.  But the 
novel & uncommon method by which this investiga- 
tion has been gotten up & put through has occasio- 
ned me much pain.  A Lt. Col. of one of the Regts.