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Pay Department
New Orleans, La
Novem. 1, 1865.

Col. Donaldson:-

Colonel - 
I am very sorry I am not able to fulfill my promise to you. I hope my inability to do so has not put you to any serious inconvenience.

When I first spoke to you in reference to the matter under consideration, the Major had said as much as to give me to understand that his intention was to quit the Pay Department by the first of November, but on arriving in this city he found an assignment to pay troops in Texas awaiting him, which he accepted and at once started to fulfill. He expected to get through with this assignment by the first of October, and with this understanding I accompanied him; but the payments were more tedious than anticipated, and we did not get back