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Beauregard Office New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company.

New Orleans, Janry 23rd 1872

My dear General I have been fortunate enough to find among my papers, saved from the wreck, one of the letters of Col. W. P. Miles, discussing the flag question with me, and which I submitted at the time to you & Genl. G. W. Smith. I send you a copy of it, which will remind you of the fact. I regret to learn that Col. Miles has lost all of my letters, they were burnt up with his other papers at the evacuation of Richmond. I think that with his letter, yours, Genl Smith's & Col. [Hatton's?] I will be able to give Captn [Prible?] a correct answer to his inquiry - You will probably

[Page 2] find it in the April number of the Baltimore Southern Magazine, to which I intend sending it for publication. We are here in a state of quasi- revolution, with the people (whites, blacks and reformed radicals) on one side, & our Carpet-bag Governor & other thieves on the other - the appearances to day are that the latter will triumph for the present. They have increased the debts of the State & City, in 3 years, from $20,000,000._ to at least $60,000,000. ! Meanwhile Governor Warmoth has increased his fortune from $0 00/100 to $1,000,000 !! Are we not living under the best Government (for thieves) that the world ever saw? By the by, Genl Longstreet commands the Governor's Militia and Metropolitan police! "What a fall was there my countrymen"!

Yours very truly G.T. Beauregard

Genl Jos. E. Johnston Savannah Ga