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WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE MILITARY SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
WASHINGTON,
July 28th, 1904

Sir: 
I have the honor to inform you that you have been selected for appointment as a cadet of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Should you desire the appointment, you are authorized by the Secretary of War to present yourself before a board of officers at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, La., on the first day of May 1905,before 9 o'clock a.m.,for mental and physical examination. Should the Academic Board in the mean time exempt you from the regular mental entrance examination under the provisions of existing regulations governing the admission of cadets, you will be so informed and will be required to appear before the examining board, at the the time and place specified, for physical examination only. If it be found that you possess the requisite qualifications, you will be admitted to the Academy, without further examination, upon reporting in person to the Superintendent of West point on the 15th day of June, 1905, before noon, and your warrant of appointment, which entitles you to pay from the date of your admission to the Academy, will be delivered to you.
The laws and regulations governing the admission of cadets are fully set forth in the accompanying circular, to which your attention is particularly directed.
You are requested immediately to inform this office of your acceptance or declination of the contemplated appointment. A blank form of acceptance is inclosed [enclosed] herewith. Very respectfully,

Henry P. McCain,
Assistant Adjutant General.

Mr. Thomas DeWitt, Milling
Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
Through Hon. Murphy J. Foster, USS.
Franklin, Louisiana