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. Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general, United States Army . o / /;% : i, ■.. .A //. , / - // / , / /./ ,/..;.,:, , /.v/.,, iy,i //,„■: ■//,., /,,.,.,/^,„ //,r /,mr A,,UJ ■,r,. J,,,,,,,//, ,:.,„■„,, ,///, >/„,/,/.//,///^ V/„a^,/%,/..,/., ■ ....^..^//^ ..,:■■. ^ ,/.,yy,//?fl>r^- „.r/„^y,.,,. Major General Howards Commission from President Lincoln. iBurnside Assumes Command of Army of Potomac 19tli, and reported to his chief (of the engineers), Gen-eral Woodbury. Woodbury put him off a day; thenext day when he came to the office Woodbury told himhe must see Halleck first; that conference sent Spauld-ing into depot and camp near Anacostia. Burnside,the 15th, called for his promised bridges by a telegramto Halleck; Spaulding then received an order to sendone train by laud and forty boats by water; the boatswhich went by water were sent off to Belle Plain, butwithout wagons or mules. They were there helplessten miles away from Burnside. Major Spaulding atAnacostia at last secured sufficient transportation, andthe 19th in the afternoon started from heavy rains began and his roads were fearful;he then wisely took waterways for the whole, and ar-rived at Belle Plain the 24th. He now moved up ingood shape and was handsomely in camp at eveningon November 25th, close
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