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Greenville Ala
July 24/61

Major Gen L Polk
Memphis Tenn

My Dear Sir

Nothing has
given me more pleasure since
the inauguration of the Confederate
Government than your high mili-
tary appointment, except it be
your acceptance of the position.
It has given sanctity to our cause--
and is worth more to it, than the
recent victory at Manassas.

I have read with a satis-
faction which I can not describe, your
order No 1. to the Army. I told an
Episcopal Clergyman that it sounded
like one of Napoleon the 1sts Bulle
tins to the Grand Armie - or rather
like Peter the Hermit calling