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Show ALDER'S WAR RECORD. The tleuleral Publishes H Mhss of lloeu-mentairy lloeu-mentairy evidence Hlgiily t'ouiplimeu-1 t'ouiplimeu-1 tary to Himself. DgTgoJ T, Match 14. Geueral Alger this morning j made public bis war record. It includes in-cludes u great host of official documents from arm f officers, warmly praising Alger and reeouj inicmling him for promotion, and along w ill i them is the report of General Custer, re commending the dismissal of Alger Al-ger from I the service. The entire record is full of ere lit to Alger, with the single ex. ep-tion ep-tion of the I uster document and the endorsements endorse-ments tin reto. in contradiction to the statements of Custsr, Alger's record shows that alter Ifche battle of Bonneville, lie laid off on account of illness, us be also did May 22, lsi.4, mi Ungust 28, 1864, to each case, however, h V had certificate of his official stir- gcou to slxjjiw that he was ill. it is inn- that in his lust absence on sick leave Ottster did not res;, uti 1 to the doctor's application for ilck leave I nf Alger, but Alger ha., shown Custer's nit live bj reve lling the latter's in. effectual at tempi to induce Alger to promote pro-mote Custel 's brother over the heads of older old-er officers. That (. uster did not always re-gard re-gard Aiger IS such is shown by various rec-OmmondatU rec-OmmondatU us in earlier portions of the war, where! ijhe praises;Alger highly. |