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before I could come to any certain conclusion as to the capacity in which you were called upon to act I should required the perusal of the dispatch alluded to of the Secretary of War. This however certain that when called on you was not in actual service, the war had ceased and in time of peace your appointment is mere nominal, & so far as regards yourself was unclear no doubt confered on you by the State Legislature for your conduct at the Battle of unclear in which you lost an arm. I am not informed what has been the custom in cases such as yours; whether it has been to pay the person employed as an agent by a commission on the amount disbursed; or by an allowance of pay, according to his rank, unclear time he may be engaged in such unclear; but surely if the government and yourself have different opinions upon that head, and as it is clear, that no previous understanding was had as to your compensation, it forms a proper object for compromise, and settlement upon unclear of justice & equity. I am very Respectfully your obed't Servant D.B. Mitchell

Colonel Tennil