I slept pretty well last night, under the hospitable roof of
Mr. Garrett.1 After breakfast, he and Mr. Smith accompanied me to
Mr. Swann's, with whom I exchanged kind greetings; thence to the hat-store of
Mr. Smith's father-in-law, Mr. Van Zandt, where I supplied myself with
something more suitable to the season than my “straw;” thence to the Custom
House, where I exchanged salutations with the officers and clerks; and thence
to the cars, where I found Judge Jewett, with whom I proceeded to Washington,
and resumed my duties at the department.
Mr. Garrett informed me that the movement of the troops was
going on successfully, which was confirmed by Mr. Stanton, who is greatly delighted
by its success. He told me that the number to be moved had been found to reach
20,000, and yet the whole had been put in motion without disturbance and in
perfect order. The last were expected to reach Washington to-day, and would be
immediately sent forward. Thus, in five days, the men who, as the President was
ready to bet, could not be got to Washington, would be already past that point,
on their way to Rosecrans, while their advance had reached the Ohio River. If
this whole movement is carried through to the end as well as it has been thus
far, it will be an achievement in the transportation of troops unprecedented, I
think, in history.
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1 At Baltimore.
SOURCES: Robert Bruce Warden, An Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland
Chase, p. 553; The Salmon P. Chase
Papers, Volume 1: Journals, 1829-1872, p. 456-7
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