To M Romero From RH Milroy Mar 31 1865

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No. 1   


 
Maj. Genl. Milroy to 

                    Senor Don Matias Romero 

                         Mexican Minister 

                                Washington 

                                        D.C. 


(copy) 


Tullahoma Tennessee
 
March 31st 1865 


 
Senor:
 
 
     Pardon me, an entire stranger, in 
addressing you.  My excuse is 
the deep interest I feel, with almost 
the entire people of the United States, 
in the salvation of our Sister Republic, 
Mexico, now struggling against the 
efforts of a foreign invader to place 
the shackles of despotism on her. 


 
     The triumph of Freedom, and 
the fast approaching peace in the 
United States, will soon disband our 
vast armies, and your brave patriotic 
President, Juarez, can then have 
all the help he wants in driving 
out the invaders of Mexico. 


 
     I desire to assist in that glorious 
work.  Can I have the honor 
of corresponding privately and freely with 
you on this subject? 


 
     I am 48 years of age, and though 
a soldier by education, I have been 
a citizen up to the beginning of the 
present war, save a campaign 
in the war, which unfortunately oc- 
curred, between Mexico and the United 
States.    I am personally 
known to President Lincoln, the Secy 
of War and the Treasury, and Commissioner 
of Patents, and to the Asst. Sec’y of the 
Interior & to the Hon. Fred P. Stanton__ 
but would refer you more particularly 

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