Thomas Lincoln Casey to General Silas Casey, September 17, 1867: Image #1

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Portland Me. September 17, 1867

My dear Father.

I have been wanting to write you for some time past but have been waiting for certain definite news from Washington.

The early part of the month I received a letter from one of the officers in the Bureau in Washington informing me an office was reserved to [??] the charge of the Division of Fortifications [??] vacant by Gen. [Wrights??] being [??] on the permanent Board of Engineers in New York. That I was thought to be the proper man for the