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The army up to this time had not been put into divisions, commanded by Major Generals, nor corps, by Lieutenant Generals, but the two commanders divided nominally the army into two corps, each commanded by a full General Brigadier General Beauregard having been raised to the rank of full General the day after his signal victory at Manassas by President Davis. Gen. Adjt. Gen. Thos.

Rumsey: The machine gun is fixed. Adjt. Prince: It is absolutely fixed on the machine, and if I should want to adjust it to shoot you, I would adjust my machine on you. The witness then took up the nature and work of some of the heavier machines. He testified: Adjt. Prince: Then comes the artillery regulating machine.

I declined to receive endorsement for permission to fight for my country. Going home for a day or two soon after this conversation with General Pope, I wrote from Galena the following letter to the Adjutant-General of the Army. GALENA, ILLINOIS, May 24, 1861. COL. L. THOMAS Adjt. Gen. U. S. A., Washington, D. C.

I do not think you could destroy an army, because you could not see them, but you could go to different stations; you could go to Strassburg, to Brussels, and places like that. The Chairman: Then, sending them over in enormous numbers would also put out of business their airplanes, and they would be helpless, would they not? Adjt. Prince: Absolutely.

C.C. Craggs, S.R. Mee, and B.G. Bligh, all new-comers. 2nd Lieuts. R.C. Broughton and A. Ramsden had joined a week or two before, so we now had our full complement of Platoon Commanders. Soon afterwards, however, 2nd Lieut. and A/Adjt. C.H. Morris went to the Indian Army, and his place was taken by Lieut. L.H. Pearson.