Of course, no person who can jeopardize the safety of Memphis can remain here, much less exercise public authority; but I must take time, and be satisfied that injustice be not done.
If the parties named be the men you describe, the fact should not be published, to put them on their guard and thus to encourage their escape.

The evidence should be carefully collected, authenticated, and then placed in my hands.

But your statement of facts is entirely qualified; in my mind, and loses its force by your negligence of the very simple facts within your reach as to myself: I had been in the army six years in 1846; am not related by blood to any member of Lucas, Turner & Co.; was associated with them in business six years (instead of two); am not colonel of the Fifteenth Infantry, but of the Thirteenth.

Your correction, this morning, of the acknowledged error as to General Denver and others, is still erroneous.

General Morgan L.Smith did not belong to my command at the battle of Shiloh at all, but he was transferred to my division just before reaching Corinth.