About ten days ago a slanderous report in the Saint Louis Republican was widely copied by telegraph in the Eastern press. You may have seen it on the first page of the Springfield Republican of April 1st. I first saw it in the New York times and at once took pains to have it denied. I will send with this the paper containing my letter. It was simply an act of justice.
While the Army & Navy Journal announces that Gen'l. Hazen is President of some sort of Board, I see by other papers that he was a pall bearer at Gen'l. Thomas' funeral on Friady and a guest at the Army of the Potomac ReUnion yesterday.