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X IL'O '.hi » Ililt)deltheWl!deimilioidUii#*•afDi’OArui:, Ox.. April 17, U3I.JMIffA-She tywut—wm you bo no kind a* to publish tho following extract from a letter written by lt;■)!. Molavock,of Franklin, Tenn., to Min; fell Mn-y Guy. of tbit place? j SpIho work of relnterrhig the Texas dead wa» eon pic lei or, Monday. Tho work ia well done.Th« number ia sixty-Ave. I will give to Mr. Bunting the II-f; he vlsliaa to eond It In yon ind to Tera*. Mr. Open has rcintcmd niity-six of the ArtRrnus dead. This was done hefore I received votir last letter. It ia wry much to be desired to nVt) Jl removed before w»nn weather, if the Be*u* mi be procured to do so. All the troops of Vcnim. one band red and seventeen «f West Ton-ne®ee, one hundred and forty of Mssissippi, and oni hundred mid liiirty of Missouri, ia all four hnn-drcd am! ilfty. have haen removed, Still, there ari over two thnnsand yet to remove. As yet, wc bare received rotting from Alabama nor Georgia ; nothing from South Carolina, Florida nor Louisiana. Unless we can get help from thwis Stntos, the track of the plowshare will croes the graves of the gallant dead of those States, which 1 trust \»Ul notDO tliO r;iAn,Col. Mcfjarncc has given a faeaitiful piece of grannd for .v soldiers' cemetery. I have u*e«l hit) name in this communication without hi* knowledge: icy motive in doing so was to give a truthful Statement of a fart Which ought to aronae our sympathies.His* Guy went on to Franklin in March to search j fo* lhs K,JV'4 lt;*f her brother. Lieut T. J. Stoke*., wi n was member of (Jranheny'a ?„%a* brigade, i OcingU* Nosliville, sheRoliciiej ooitri buttons for 1 the pitrpoMi of reburying t»,c Texans, and soon tbe ‘ necessary unonni waa obtained, j Will not ti e fair daughter* of the Orescent City . roijuc from oblivion tbe grave* of Louisiana's nil-laat ayin vh fell upon th.u Held? It j3 the but trbule of respect timuun he paid /} ttc. momory of tin: true c id the brave.”You unu ri.i»« .nsy use you sue j roper of what 'X 1 avr n • li--i. IbiKpoctfuViy, u. „ slt;. I’.S—Any pr-sou wishing t., coitribute fund* ito' tho r'•burial of i!i* dead, would be informed •bow io M.oii them by a.blro-tiing Co'. John McCav-Ocfc, Franklin Tern,
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New Orleans Daily Crescent
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Mon, Apr 23, 1866
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