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I believe General Innis N. Palmer has received some instructions directly from General Sherman, on the subject of securing supplies for his army. You can learn what steps he has taken, and be governed in your requisitions accordingly. A supply of ordnance-stores will also be necessary. Make all your requisitions upon the chiefs of their respective departments, in the field, with me at City Point.
With us, to-day, the law and regulations are that, no matter what may be the emergency, the commanding general in Texas, New Mexico, and the remote frontiers, cannot draw from the arsenals a pistol- cartridge, or any sort of ordnance-stores, without first procuring an order of the Secretary of War in Washington.
The commanding general though intrusted with the lives of his soldiers and with the safety of a frontier in a condition of chronic war cannot touch or be trusted with ordnance-stores or property, and that is declared to be the law!
So it was also in small towns like Hesdin, St.-Pol, Bruay, Lillers a hundred others where officers stayed for years in charge of motor-repair shops, ordnance-stores, labor battalions, administration offices, claim commissions, graves' registration, agriculture for soldiers, all kinds of jobs connected with that life of war, but not exciting. Not exciting.
The commanding general though intrusted with the lives of his soldiers and with the safety of a frontier in a condition of chronic war cannot touch or be trusted with ordnance-stores or property, and that is declared to be the law!
With us, to-day, the law and regulations are that, no matter what may be the emergency, the commanding general in Texas, New Mexico, and the remote frontiers, cannot draw from the arsenals a pistol- cartridge, or any sort of ordnance-stores, without first procuring an order of the Secretary of War in Washington.
I believe General Innis N. Palmer has received some instructions directly from General Sherman, on the subject of securing supplies for his army. You can learn what steps he has taken, and be governed in your requisitions accordingly. A supply of ordnance-stores will also be necessary. Make all your requisitions upon the chiefs of their respective departments, in the field, with me at City Point.
Six vessels, laden with cannon and ordnance-stores for the siege of Mantua, sailed from Toulon for St. Pier d'Arena. Assisted by Captain Cockburn, in the MELEAGER, he drove them under a battery; pursued them, silenced the batteries, and captured the whole.
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