CAMP NEAR ALEXANDRIA,
August 31, 1862 – 2.30 p.m.
Major Haller is at Fairfax Station with my provost and
headquarters guard and other troops. I have requested four more companies to be
sent at once and the precautions you direct to be taken.
Under the War
Department order of yesterday I have no control over anything except my
staff, some 100 men in my camp here, and the few remaining near Fort Monroe. I
have no control over the new regiments – do not know where they are, or
anything about them, except those near here. Their commanding officers and
those of the works are not under me.
Where I have seen evils existing under my eye, I have
corrected them. I think it is the business of General Casey to prepare the new
regiments for the field, and a matter between him and General Barnard to order
others to the vicinity of Chain Bridge. Neither of them is under my command,
and by the War Department order I have no right to give them orders.
GEO. B. McCLELLAN,
Major-General.
General HALLECK, Washington.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
11, Part 1 (Serial No. 12), p. 102
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