[Alexandria,
Virginia, October 11, 1861]
I have been very
fortunate in securing control of my brigade. One day last week eighteen
officers of the Sixteenth addressed a communication to me relative to one of my
orders on the subject of depredations on private property. They thought it very
severe, and "respectfully demanded" its modification. I at once
placed every one of them in arrest, and confined them to their tents. Within a
day or two the most humble apologies commenced pouring in, and finally every
one was released. But it had a wonderful effect.
SOURCE: New York
(State). Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and
Chattanooga, In Memoriam : Henry Warner
Slocum, 1826-1894, p. 70-1
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