To Gen Whipple From RH Milroy June 21 1865

              Headquarters Inf. N.& C. R.R. 

                 Tullahoma Tenn 

                           June 21, 1865 


General 

The enclosed letter is respectfully forwarded  
for the information & such action as may be thought propper of the Maj Gnl 
comdg dist Dept Cumberland.  The 
cases referred to in of destitution mentioned 
in the letter are only a few among the 
thousands of destitute families of union 
soldiers all over the state especially colored soldiers.  It is difficult 
to immagine the misery of the poor soldier 
absent from his family when knowing 
with certainty that they are suffering for 
the absolute necessaries of life.  The families 
of soldiers in the disloyal states are in 
every respect in a hundred fold worse 
condition than those in the loyal states, for 
besides the destitution occasioned by 
the ravages of war & the want of  united 
simpathy there are none of those aid 
societies & approprations by country & 
states so universal in all the states 
of the North.  I would therefore respectf- 
ully suggest that authority be granted to post