Letter
[Received in cipher, 3 p. m., 17th.], January 16, 1866—3 p. m.
[Received in cipher, 3 p. m., 17th.]
Office United States Military Telegraph, War Department, New Orleans, La., January 16, 1866—3 p. m.
Lieutenant General U. S. Grant, Washington:
In the New Orleans newspapers of this date it is reported that some of the colored troops crossed over the Rio Grande to assist in the capture of Bagdad. I do not believe one word of it. Weitzel has the most peremptory orders to preserve neutrality, and I look on this crossing of the Rio Grande as a sensation story. I have no official information from that quarter.
I have sent orders to Weitzel to break up all filibustering recruiting parties, if necessary to preserve neutrality.
P. H. SHERIDAN, Major General.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty.