CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867 — Page 454

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" Coloull Lovell's plan to be that

" contained in Colonel Moody's letter

" to the suspector General of Engineers

is

Luted April 1863,

a copy of

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was furnished to the Oppier then

Administering the Grurument" and

further that Colonel Lovell "proposes

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220

new plan for

the

exteusin

" of the Cantonments with the Harbor

but merely recalls attention to

" Colonel Moody's project. It was

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therefore

considered unnecessary

his letter.

forward copies of his

2. The principle

involved in that explanation

appears to stis Excellency

important to be passed

"

much to

over witterut

}

A

very

distinct understanding

what be had previously regarded

as the plain duty of the officer

Commanding the troops. Stis Excellency has

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wish to enter

needlessly

into

controversial.

any

discussion but differs so entirely

from the General's new above

expressed

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Colonel Moody's letter,

and has been so

inerveiently

missed therety, that with

O

new

to the prevention of puture mis-

= conceptions upon topics such as

There

he feels Aliged

his opinion of

to state

the letter which

the General regarded

ала

sufficient.

3. I have therepe

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