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Office A.Q.M. Corinth Miss. June 13" 1867 Bvt. Maj. Genl. Thos. Swords. A.Q.M. Gen'l. Louisville Ky. General: In accordance with your endorsement on communication herewith enclosed, I have the honor to submit the following report: Every assertion made in the enclosed communication I emphatically deny, and pronounce the same to be an accumulation of base prevarications, and defy the "true Southerner" to substantiate one single declaration made; he dares not communicate in the name granted him, may be at the Altar, but in an anonymous communication makes declarations over the ignominious title of a "true Southerner" - which title in itself sets forth the man in all his immorality and putrescence. The first charge "Fining employ'es engaged in the National Cemetery at Corinth Miss" is utterly