HDQRS. OF THE ARMY,
Washington, D.C.,
July 24, 1863.
Major-General ROSECRANS, Nashville:
GENERAL: The tone of some of your replies to my dispatches
lately would indicate that you thought I was unnecessarily urging you forward.
On the contrary, I have deemed it absolutely necessary, not only for the
country but also for your own reputation, that your army should remain no
longer inactive. The patience of the authorities here has been completely
exhausted, and if I had not repeatedly promised to urge you forward, and begged
for delay, you would have been removed from the command. It has been said that
you are as inactive as was General Buell, and the pressure for your removal has
been almost as strong as it has been in his case. I am well aware that people
at a distance do not appreciate the obstacles and difficulties which they would
see if nearer by; but, whether well founded or without any foundation at all,
the dissatisfaction really exists, and I deem it my duty, as a friend, to
represent it to you truly and fairly; and I think I ought to do so, if for no
other reason, because it was at my earnest solicitations that you were given
the command.
Yours, truly,
H. W. HALLECK,
General-in Chief.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
23, Part 2 (Serial No. 35), p. 552
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