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HdQrs Ft. Laramie June 19, 1867

    Respectfully forwarded.  I presume the within report is made in obedience to some order requiring chaplains to make periodical reports of the moral condition of the Posts at which they may be serving, and in forwarding it I will merely state that while in the main, the report of the Rev. Mr. Wright may be correct, my natural modesty must prevent my giving decided approval to the remarks which are personal, and so very flattering to myself.
    However, a "beau jew, beau retour", and I will

[middle column] therefore remark that I consider Mr. Wright a very worthy gentleman and, really quite useful. I have never seen him intoxicated neither has it ever been necessary to reprove him for riotous conduct, and the practice, so freely indulged in by some of the foreign clergy, of keeping a mistress, meets with no favor from him.

    I have never heard Mr. Wright preach, for unfortunately, we have no chapel or suitable place for church services and up to this time the weather has not admitted of outdoor services.  However, I feel sure that he is orthodox and that he can handle a theological subject as clearly as he can his pen or a hoe, - and I must here

[right column] remark that he is an excellent gardener. He is undoubtedly "ami des noirs" as he is of the so called friendly Indian, and if he is not perfectly sound in politics, he will be, I am sure, after we receive the next supply of political Journals from the United States.

  In view of all this it is rather matter of surprise to see that Mr. Wright was overlooked in the recent generous distribution of Brevets to non-compattants, and I do hereby recommend him for a Brevet of Major General to date from March 13th 1865, and to take rank just above the Doctors who were brevetted to the same grade for the same engagement,