[Draft.]
August 19, 1865.
Dear Sir, — I
cannot express to you my appreciation of and thanks for your very kind note
of the 12th, in which you so graciously grant my request for leave of
absence. I cannot forget your kindness in this matter, and shall try not to
forfeit your favorable consideration.
You addressed me as Brevet Major-general, and I have been
informed that such a brevet had been recommended, and that Mr. S. had written
to you concerning its confirmation, but I have not received any official notice
of it, and the leave is made out for Brigadier-general. In the matter of pay,
you have said all that I could expect, and I am content to leave the question
suspended, and await the decision that circumstances may dictate, judging that
it is not doubtful up to the time when I should otherwise have been mustered
out.
I have just received the leave from the Adjutant-general's
office.
Yours, etc.
[brigadier-general Willaim F. Bartlett.]
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 154-5
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