Letter
WEITZEL, Major General Commanding to Monsieur G. Cloue, Commander of the Naval Division, Gulf of Mexico, November 10, 1865
No. 16.
General Weitzel’s response.
Headquarters District of the Rio Grande, Brownsville, Texas, November 10, 1865.
Sir: I have received your communication of the 6th instant, and return it herewith, as I cannot receive a document so disrespectful to me and to the government I have the honor to represent.
If you have any complaints to make, they will he duly submitted to higher authority, if said complaints are in proper tone and couched in proper language.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
G. WEITZEL, Major General Commanding.
Monsieur G. Cloue, Commander of the Naval Division, Gulf of Mexico.
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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.