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ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE. CITY OF JEFFERSON, August 24, 1891.

Governor DAVID R. FRANCIS, City :

DEAR SIR I have the honor to return the enclosed letter, with the information that there is no data on file in this office which will enable me to reply to the questions asked. I would suggest, that perhaps the Southern Historical Society could come nearer furnish- ing the information asked for than any one, unless it be General Harding.

Very respectfully,

J. A. WICKHAM, Adjutant General.

To General Harding :

Can you reply ?

D. R. F. Governor.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF JEFFERSON, August 25 ,

JOSEPH JONES, M. D.,

156 Washington Avenue, New Orleans, La. :

DEAR SIR In further answer of yours of the lyth, I enclose communications from the Department of the Adjutant- General and from General James Harding, who was a brigadier in the Confede- rate service. You will observe therefrom that it is impossible to give you definite information on the points mentioned in your letter. I would suggest that you correspond with the Southern Historical Society in the city of St. Louis. Captain Lesueur informs me that he has replied to the queries to which he could give satisfactory answers.

Respectfully,

DAVID R. FRANCIS.