Office U.S. Military Telegraph,
Col. R. M. Hough & others War Department,
Chicago, Illinois Washington, D.C., March 17 1865
Col. R. M. Hough & others War Department,
Chicago, Illinois Washington, D.C., March 17 1865
Yours received. The best I can do with it is to refer it to the War Department. The Rock-Island case referred to, was my individual enterprize; and it caused so much difficulty in so many ways that I promised to never undertake another. A. LINCOLN