 Reynolds followed this up by sending a copy to Price and asking him to resign from the military.Price responded by requesting that Smith conduct a formal investigation of Price’s charges and in a published letter to the Shreveport News denied Reynolds’ charges while referring to him as someone "who pretends to be, and styles himself in it [the Texas Republican letter], the Governor of the State of Missouri.A court of inquiry was held in late April 1865, but it was never concluded due to the end of the war.