. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and with Generals McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and others in command of the armies in the field, and his impression of these men . on in which officers of theMilitary Railroad Department are placed during a period of activeoperations, their incessant labors night and day, and the innumerablesources of difficulty and annoyance from which ordinary railroads
. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and with Generals McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and others in command of the armies in the field, and his impression of these men . on in which officers of theMilitary Railroad Department are placed during a period of activeoperations, their incessant labors night and day, and the innumerablesources of difficulty and annoyance from which ordinary railroads areexempt, I wish it distinctly to be understood, that no profanity, incivil-ity, or indisposition to accommodate will be permitted; but if com-plaints are made by officers, which, on investigation, shall be proven to bewell founded, the offender will be removed as soon as a properly quali-fied substitute can be found to perform his duties. While conscious of no disposition to shield the employes or agentsof the Military Railroads from any censure or punishment that is reallymerited, justice to them requires me to state that, so far, examinationhas shown that complaints against them have been generally withoutproper foundation; and when demands were not promptly complied with,the cause has been inability, arising from want of proper notice, andnot GENERAL HERMAN EAUPT. 173 Officers at posts entrusted with the performance of certain localduties, and anxious, as they generally are, to discharge them efficiently,are not always able, or disposed, to look beyond their own particularspheres: they expect demands on railway agents to be promptly compliedwith, without considering that similar demands at the same time, inaddition to the regular train service and routine duties, may come fromQuartermasters, Commissaries, Medical Directors, Surgeons, OrdnanceOfficers, the Commanding General, the War Department, and from othersources. The Military Railroads have utterly fail
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