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Enterprise May 3, 1864
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| Dr. M. Emanuel {President
or Vice President of the Southern of Mississippi RR} |
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| Dear Sir, |
| We have read a letter you addressed on the
17th of Feby to the Federal General commanding here when the army
occupied this place, and learning that in connection therewith, there
has been some reflection on your character as a loyal citizen of the
Confederacy, we take pleasure in stating that in our judgment there is
nothing in that letter that can be tortured into anything disloyal --
no word in sympathy with the enemy, his purposes or designs. No object
of the letter to us seems to have been to secure a favor personal to
you and your family & in no wise connected with our Country or its
Cause. Your consistent conduct & laborious services for the
Confederacy should be a sufficient answer to such an imputation
without any expression of our opinion in your behalf. |
| Respectfully & truly yours |
| D O Merwick |
| L Mims |
| E. H. Rutherford |
| G P Theobold |
| G W Tolson |
| W. F. Bulloch |
| AAG |
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