5th.  Letter of General Fred. Knefler to General Wallace, February 19, 1868.

6th.  Letter of Captain Ad Ware, A.D.C., to General Wallace (without date).

7th.  Letter of General John M. Thayer to General Wallace, March 4, 1868.

8th.  Letter of General U.S.  Grant to General Wallace, March 10, 1868, commenting upon the letters cited and suggesting their publication, in justice to General Wallace.

[Illustration:  The map of the Compte de Paris has been utilized. 1, 2 and 3 give location of Wallace’s Brigades in line, perpendicular to the river, with right at Adamsville (3), 2.  Concentration of Division. 4.  Crossing at Snake creek to take the right of General Sherman. 4-5.  Countermarch to lower crossing after retirement of the right. 6.  Lower crossing which had for several days previously been under water.  Wallace’s division, on the 7th, held the right of Sherman, as indicated for the 6th, when he moved to take part in the general action.]

General Wallace to General Grant: 

    WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 29, 1868.

    GENERAL: 

About a year after the battle of Pittsburg Landing, it came to my knowledge, that I was suffering, in your opinion, from erroneous information upon the subject of my conduct and movements as commander of the Third Division of your army during the first day of the battle named.  To place myself right in your estimation and in that of the army generally, I asked a Court of Inquiry, by letter to the Secretary of War (Mr. Stanton) July 17, 1863.  After several months, during which the application received no attention from the Secretary, I withdrew it, by advice of friends, General Sherman amongst others.  The course I then resolved upon, that counselled by General Sherman, was to carry my explanation directly to you; and such continued my intention until the battle of Monocacy, after which your treatment of me became so uniformly kind and considerate that I was led to believe the disagreement, connected with Pittsburg Landing, forgotten; a result, to which I tacitly assented, notwithstanding the record of that battle as you had made it, in the form of an endorsement on my official report, was grievously against me.

A recent circumstance, however, has made it essential to my good name, which I cannot bring myself to believe you wish to see destroyed, to go back to my former purpose; in pursuance of which, the object of this letter is simply to introduce certain statements of gentlemen lately in the army, your friends as much as mine, in hopes that the explanations to be found therein will be sufficent to authorize you to give me a note of acquittal from blame, plainly enough, to allay the suspicions and charges to which I have been so painfully subjected.  The statements are in the form of extracts pertinent to the subject from letters now in my possession, from General Fred Knefler, General George McGinnis,