To Gen Sherman From RH Milroy Sept 15 1864

              Tullahoma Tenn. 
                                           Sept. 15. 1864 
General. 
             From what I hear, you will soon 
reorganize your armies to some extent. 
If such should be the case, I respectfully 
ask that I may not be overlooked. I think 
I have done penance long enough in the rear 
to atone for all the sins of myself and my ancestors. 
The scattering R. R. guard I now command is 
hardly a respectable command for a  Brigadier. The  
R..R is much safe within my command &  
I am not much here. 
General, I trust you will not consider me 
importunate or  captious. But having been  
educated as a soldier& seen some service in 
 Mexico & since the beginning of the present war as 
a soldier . What little reputation I have as 
such is dear to me, & I have some pride of 
character. My reputation has been blurred and 
blackened. & my pride of character deeply wounded. 
By a most unjust and causless  arrest. such as not 
the case with any other Maj. Gnl. in the 
service. If you can give me a comd . In front 
where I can have opportunity to wipe out too. 
Some extent the stigma of that arrest you 
will lay me under the deepest obligations. 
I would freely wave any question of rank & take