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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
of measures for the exchange of all prisoners taken by the armies of the belligerents, and the Secretary of War instructed me to propose to General McClellan the proper arrangements for that object. These instructions were obeyed on the 1st of February, by transmitting the following letter of that date to General McClellan, by the hands of Lieutenant-Colonel Julian Harrison, of the Virginia cavalry, who was selected to bear it on account of the interest attaching to the subject, and its id fifty car-loads; while by my system there would have been about a million and a half pounds, a hundred car-loads, for removal. In the mean time the Secretary of War continued to pursue the course against which I had remonstrated on the 1st of February, to the great injury of the army. I therefore asked the President's intervention, on the 1st of March, as follows: I ask permission to call your attention to practices prevailing at the War Department, which are disorganizing in their
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 14 (search)
he two armies were equally on the defensive at the time apparently referred to. The result of the conference See pages 75 and 76. at Fairfax Court-House terminated our hope of assuming the offensive, and, in consequence, the army was placed at Centreville and intrenched. So far from expressing satisfaction with the strength and excellence of the army, I urged, at Fairfax Court-House, that it should be increased by at least fifty per cent., and my only letter See those especially of February 1st to the acting Secretary of War, page 91; and March 1st, to the President, page 100. on the subject expressed the strongest dissatisfaction with the condition in numbers and discipline to which the army was reduced by the interference of the War Department with its interior management. The concentration of a vast amount of stores and material of war in and about Manassas was made by the Government itself against my repeated remonstrances, See note page 98, including Colonel Cole's letter