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t for such a course, which, after all, could only have been carried out by the authority of the General-in-Chief." Gen. Meigs, quartermaster, testifies that he did his best to forward the pontoons; that the time was too short in which to send thnly placed in command of a large army, and was to leave it and go to Washington to look after pontoons, which Halleck and Meigs had already under taken to send him, and when the Secretary of War, too, was there to see the matter attended to ! Burnsithey could have crossed at the time they did had the enemy chosen to prevent is, General Hooker deposes, that Hallock, or Meigs, promised to have the pontoons down and everything ready in three days. When Sumner arrived there were only five hundred mmediately after the recess a joint resolution will be adopted, calling upon the President to remove Stanton and Halleck, Meigs, and the whole batch of incompetent officials, whose delays paralyze the best efforts of the Generals in the field. And,