. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and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 . k, and thenstarted, in company with Superintendent J. H. Devereux, to seethe oiBcer personally. When I reached his Headquarters, the General was seated inan arm-chair surrounded by his staff. His salutation was, Well!I am glad
. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and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 . k, and thenstarted, in company with Superintendent J. H. Devereux, to seethe oiBcer personally. When I reached his Headquarters, the General was seated inan arm-chair surrounded by his staff. His salutation was, Well!I am glad you have come, for I have just sent a guard to your officeto put you in arrest for disobedience of my orders in failing totransport my command. I replied that I was acting under the orders of General Hal-leck ; that so far as my personal comfort was concerned, the arrestwould be quite a relief, if he could lend me a blanket and allow mea corner of the floor, as I had not been able to sleep for a consider-able time, and a few hours of rest would be quite refreshing, buthe must understand that he was assuming a very grave responsibil-ity; the trains were loaded with wounded; the surgeons with am-bulances were waiting for them at the depot; the engines wouldsoon be out of wood and water, and serious delays would be causedin the forwarding of troops to General /GENERAL HEBMAN EAVPT. 83 The General exclaimed in an excited tone: I dont care forJolm Pope a pinch of owl dung! He then called one of his staff and whispered something whichI did not hear, but learned subsequently that he had sent an orderto the engineers to cut loose from their trains, run to Alexandriafor wood and water and then return. As there was but a singletrack and no one capable of performing the Munchausen feat ofpicking up the engines and carrying them around the trains, theorder coiild not be executed. Soon after, an Orderly rode up and delivered to me a dispatchfrom General Halleck in these words: No mil
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