This, and no less than this, is due from one soldier to another.

It is due to the exalted position which you occupy, and, above all, it is due to that truthfulness in history which you claim to revere.

If you desire it, I will endeavor to visit you, and in a friendly manner "fight our battles o'er again," and endeavor to convince you that you have always been mistaken as to the manner in which my part in the "Meridian campaign" was performed.

But I will never rest until the wrong statements regarding it are fully and fairly corrected.

Yours truly, WILLIAM SOOY SMITH HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES St.Louis, Missouri, July 11, 1875.
General J.D.WEBSTER, Chicago, Illinois DEAR GENERAL: General W.Sooy Smith feels aggrieved and wronged by my account of his part in the Meridian campaign, in my "Memoirs," pages 394, 395, and properly appeals to me for correction.