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emanation of genius and of the results which it promised as absolutely sublime. It may be proper, therefore, to say that this statement is made for the sake of truth, and not to call attention to the extravagant colors in which it has been presented.
No. 3 Miscellaneous Confederate reports and correspondence.
SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith the petition of W. W. Brown and others, soldiers of the Twenty-first and Second Ohio Regiments, U. S. Army, and to request instructions in the matter.
I recommend that they be respited until further orders, and detained as hostages for our own people in the hands of the enemy.
Inquire whether there is anything to justify a discrimination between these and others who were executed for the same offense.
Write to Major G. W. Lee, provost-marshal at Atlanta, and inquire why 14 of the engine-thieves were respited, while the others were executed, and whether there is anything distinguishing their case.
Petition from the survivors of Andrews' party, who took the engine on the Georgia State Railroad in April last, to Major-General Bragg, commanding Department No.@.
ATLANTA JAIL, August 17, 1862.