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Head Quarters Military Division of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal., April 27th, 1868. Dear General. We send a small mail in the Wayunder and some newspapers. You will see that Genl Halleck proposes to visit you ere long. Dr. Veeney and I are probably booked for the trip, but we cannot get much information out of the General beforehand.

  I think that you will like Captain White. I have known him for ten years and have always found him zealous to serve army officers. You will find him ready to coöperate with you in every way consistent with his duties to his own Department.
  Genl Rousseau arrived in Washington too late to be of any service to Mr. Johnson. This week will probably close out the President, and put Ben Wade into the nest of Thorns called The Executive Mansion. L. Thomas will then go up the sport?, but I'm afraid Wade will not give me the vacancy that would thus occur. So much for being in bad luck.