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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 21: administration of War Department (search)
public mind has developed an extraordinary sensitiveness, and this disaster will weigh far more than it ought. Stoneman surrendered his entire command to an inferior force of Confederates, mostly militia, while on a raid in the vicinity of Macon, Georgia. Why didn't you come down with the general on Sunday? The general at first proposed to put either Sheridan or Meade in charge of the campaign in the Valley; next he sent word to leave Hunter in command if he had already taken the fieldved came through the Confederates or the intelligent contraband. I knew that the spring campaign would begin all along the line as soon as the weather would permit, but I had no word from the time I left the Tennessee River till I arrived at Macon, Georgia, as to what had actually taken place in Virginia and the Carolinas; and after the armistice it took several days to re-establish telegraphs, and several weeks to open railroad communication and the postal service with the North. It was not t