In reply to your Excellency’s letter of the 10th instant I have the honor to inform you that in pursuance of the postscript to yours of the 4th directing the letter for General Hazen to be detained some days, it has not been forwarded, and will remain at the War Office until your Excellency shall order it to be sent on. I have the honor to be, with profound respect, Your Excellency’s most obedient servant