Department of the Interior,

Bureau of Pensions.

Washington, D.C., September 19, 1895.

 

Hon. D. S. Lamont,

Secretary of War.

 

Sir:

                                    I ask leave to submit, for such reference and notice as you judge proper, the inclosed copy of a communication I addressed to General Henry Heth as a Member of the Commission for the Antietam Battlefield.

 

                        Since writing that letter I understand the office of the Commission is practically closed by reason of exhausted appropriation and that General Heth is no longer officiating as a Member of the Commission.

 

                        I hope this condition will be considered sufficient apology for my addressing you in vidication of history so far as the old Tamany Regiment is interested.

 

Most respectfully,

 

 

(a Brig. Gen. Commanding the 3d Brigade, 2d

Division (Sedgwick) 2d Corps (Sumner) at the

Battle of Antietam.)

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