Office of the Historian

General Townsend, Adjutant-General, to General Terry, commanding Department of the South.

Headquarters of the Army,
Adjutant-General’s Office,
[113] *Washington, September 4, 1869.

Brevet Major-General A. H. Terry,
Commanding Department of the South, Atlanta, Georgia:

United States district attorneys at Atlanta and Macon inform the Attorney-General of large parties being formed to go to Cuba, and ask assistance of United States troops. The latter says a party will get off by special boat from Fort Gaines, Georgia, to-day. The Secretary of War directs that if the marshal holds a warrant in his hands issued by any magistrate for the arrest of any person charged with an offense against the neutrality laws, and is unable to execute it with the aid of such civil force as he can command, you afford him such assistance as may be in your power, on proper application. Acknowledge receipt.

By command of General Sherman:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Adjutant-General.
September 4, 1869.

Respectfully returned. The instructions within are approved. By order of the Secretary of War:

JNO. E. SMITH,
Colonel and Brevet Major-General, U. S. A.