From the National Tribune.

Washington, D. C., April 2, 1896.

E. Richter, Company D, First Wisconsin Cavalry, St. Paul, Minnesota, says: "In your issue of March 12th, General Minty gives an account of the doings of this Fourth Michigan Cavalry during the war. I have no reason to doubt but that the boys of that regiment were as brave as any other soldiers, but when any one of that regiment claims credit for the capture of Jefferson Davis, it sets my bood boiling, knowing the circumstances, and that Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard had two of his brave men murdered, and several wounded to accomplish his act of treachery toward his fellow officer, Colonel H. Harnden of the First Wisconsin Cavalry.

The less they say about the capture of Davis the better for them, for the blood of the brave men killed and wounded, in the contest between the Fourth Michigan and the First Wisconsin is upon Colonel Pritchard. For particulars I

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