HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,
In Camp near Vicksburg, Miss., June 17, 1863.
Major-General McCLERNAND Commanding Thirteenth Army Corps:
GENERAL: Inclosed I send you what purports to be your congratulatory address to the Thirteenth Army Corps. I would respectfully ask if it is a true copy. If it is not a correct copy, furnish me one by bearer, as required both by regulations and existing orders of the Department.
Respectfully,
U.S. GRANT,
Major-general.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 24, Part 1 (Serial No. 36), p. 102
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