Washington, D. C., April 28,1861.
General, — The
General-in-Chief directs me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 25th
instant and to say in reply that the very great necessity which exists for
carrying out the business of the several staff departments with system, under
their proper chiefs, compels him to request you will give no orders interfering
with the purchase or issue of army supplies, such orders being, in all cases,
dictated by the General-in-Chief himself. The General regrets your infirm
health does not permit him to assign you to an important command away from your
headquarters, and he recommends that you return to Troy to conduct the ordinary
routine duties of your department and for the recovery of your health, known by
him to be feeble. I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient
servant,
E. D. Townsend,
Assistant
Adjutant-General
SOURCE: Henry Greenleaf Pearson, The Life of John A.
Andrew: Governor of Massachusetts, 1861-1865, Volume 1, p. 208
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