[3072) [RUSK to MARTIN]
Head Quarter Army 15th May 1836.
To Captain Wyly Martin,
Sir, Your note of this date has been received I reuret such C, the loss to the Army the Services of a man I hold in a hiuh • • C, estunatlon as I do yourself but the reason offered are of a such a nature as Lo induce me lo accept the resignation accept Sir the assurance of my highest respect.
Tho. J. Rusk Brig. Genl. Corng.
[3073) [TORNEL to FILISOLA]
Secretary's office of war and marine.-Central seclion.-First bureau.-Excellent Sir:-With the most profound sorrow, his Excellency, the president pro tern., has learned by the official letter of your Excellency, of 25th last month, the defeat suffered on the 21st of the same month, by the division commanded in person by the president, general-in-chief of the army, and the very lamentable misfortune that his Excellc11cy should be made prisoner with other chiefs and officers. His Excellency, the president pro tern., is in some measure consoled that a general, so experienced as your Excellency, should be the one who obtains the command, the which he expressly confirms. The first desire that his Excellency has, is, that you address the enemy's general, exacting from him, by decorous means, the liberty of the president general-in-chief, or at least during the Lime this point can be regulated, the considerations due to his high dignity, and to a person so distinguished in the annals of American hi::,lory, at1d for whose preservation the e11tirc nation is interested by gratitude, and because he is chief of il. His Excellency, the president pro tern., counts upon your Excellency's directing all his efforts to save the remainder of the army, by concentrating it, so as to render it more respectable, placing it in a convenient place for receiving provisions, for which
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