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after the Republican Convention. I understood that Ward felt that his chances were gone, unless there was a vacancy in the Inspector General's Department and I was informed that he had no plan of filling the vacancy in the adjutant Generals Department. He was away on Inspection duty when the vacancy was filled. The President however recollected the case as it stood and had stood for a long time and appointed him to fill the vacancy: If Major Ward took a part in the matter further that I have related it isn't known here.

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