. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt : giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and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 . mme-diately report to him, and will hereafter receive instructions from himonly. All requisitions for transportation, and all applications for con-struction or repair of roads, will be made directly to him at Alexan-dria, Va.
. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt : giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and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 . mme-diately report to him, and will hereafter receive instructions from himonly. All requisitions for transportation, and all applications for con-struction or repair of roads, will be made directly to him at Alexan-dria, Va. All passes given by him to employes will be respected as if issuedfrom these Headquarters. By command of Major-General Pope. GEO. D. KUGGLES,Colonel and Chief of Staff. Washington City, D. C, August 19, : That the Department of Colonel Herman Haupt, for-merly Aide-de-Camp to Major-General McDowell, and Chief of Con-struction and Transportation in the Army of the Rappahannock, is here-by extended to embrace all the railroads which are or may hereafterbe included within the lines of operation of the Army of Virginia; andthe instructions of May 28,1862 [see page 54], are continued in full force. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. After giving orders to Colonel Ruggles, General Pope mount-ed his horse and rode off to review one of the Corps, but returned. GENERAL HERMAN HAUPT. 7a in haste in about an hour with the information that the enemy wasin full force in front and advancing rapidly. He ordered an im-mediate retreat, and turning to me requested that I would do all inmy power to remove the stores at Culpepper, where a large amounthad been collected. I immediately took an ambulance, and, in company with Gen-eral E. S. Eoberts, Chief of Cavalry, rode to Culpepper and suc-ceeded in reloading all the stores and sending them to a safe dis-tance in the rear. I then turned my attention to reorganizing thetransportation, which had again been thrown into confusion fromthe u
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