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February 11th, submitted it to a vote of the people, to be taken on the 23d of that month. But Arkansas had not yet voted to hold a convention. The adjutant-general concluded that such a tender of troops to the governor was impracticable under the circumstances. He would telegraph the citizens of Helena to that effect, since the governor had given him the dispatch to answer. Adjutant-General Burgevine was brother-in-law of Governor Rector, and brother of the Burgevine of whom Gen. Edward Forrester wrote in his reminiscences of the great Tai-Ping rebellion in China, describing the battle of Fung-Wah: This was the last battle fought by the ever victorious army under my command. My broken health compelled me to retire, and General Burgevine was appointed my successor. But, General, it was suggested, suppose you frame a dispatch as follows: The governor has no authority to summon you to take possession of a Federal post, whether threatened to be reinforced or not. Should the p