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The letters communicated by you in confidence relative to the State troops shall be retained - the opinion of the person you mention is indeed - extraordinary.
 
The letters communicated by you in confidence relative to the State troops shall be retained - the opinion of the person you mention is indeed - extraordinary.
  
I should be glad were it practicable to receive Major MCulley and his Corps on the establishment - I have an high opinion of his worth and regretted at the time the arrangements were making that he could not be appointed - the State having Major Clarke and Major Butler who were of the levies the last year and whose services merited a reappointment.
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I should be glad were it practicable to receive Major Major McCulley and his Corps on the establishment - I have an high opinion of his worth and regretted at the time the arrangements were making that he could not be appointed - the State having Major Clarke and Major Butler who were of the levies the last year and whose services merited a reappointment.
  
 
I wrote you last post relative to the Chicksaws - I am inclin [punctuation] to the opinion they ought not to be retained - the season will be too far advanced to have an active campaign.
 
I wrote you last post relative to the Chicksaws - I am inclin [punctuation] to the opinion they ought not to be retained - the season will be too far advanced to have an active campaign.