Orville Hickman Browning to Hugh McCulloch, 23 June 1868

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Title: Orville Hickman Browning to Hugh McCulloch, 23 June 1868
Date: June 23, 1868
Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00580
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Cite this page: Browning, Orville Hickman and Walt Whitman. "Orville Hickman Browning to Hugh McCulloch, 23 June 1868." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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June 23, 1868. Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury. Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of yesterday's date, with the accompanying papers, touching an indictment found against Special Agent George L. Little, in the Eastern District of Missouri, and to state that, in compliance with your request, I have this day addressed instructions to the United States Attorney for that District, to discontinue the prosecution—a copy of which is herewith enclosed. I am sir, very respectfully, OH Browning, Attorney General ad interim [copy enc.]