Viewing page 66 of 240

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Greenville, AL.
22d June, 1866

General,
I beg to be permitted to express my very sincere regret that anything has occurred here to develop improper conduct in the administration of the Commissary Department; and particularly that by indirection, my young friend, Mr. Frank Monroe, is implicated.  I became acquainted with this young man, some years ago, & the remarkable prudence and integrity of his conduct; and the devotion with which he clung to, and provided for a widowed Mother; struck me as quite unusual for a young man, at an age when youth are generally so thoughtless. I am convinced that his connection with the affair, particulars of which will be laid before you, is entirely without the slightest guilt on his part. I speak this from my experiences in his honesty, and confidence in him; for of the transactions, just developed I was wholly ignorant. A fixture in my office, I go nowhere to hunt up news, and never listen to rumors; and am satisfied, that loss of public spirit and of purity of motive, have instigated these revelations, than of mischief making, unfaithfulness to the Government, and a desire of self appropriation. It is not out of place for me to say that with poor Steinburg I deeply sympathise: as I know he has been made 

Transcription Notes:
Edited: removed Archive stamp per Si not required to transcribe, its Monroe, not Maura, changes and corrections