Your favor of the
twenty-second has just come to hand. I came here without my family and with the
intention of remaining only until the surplus generals were mustered out. I did
not like to go out with a crowd of worthless officers who should have been
mustered out long ago; but I think ——— & Co. will outlive me after all, as
I do not intend to spend the winter here. I shall pay you a visit on my way
home.
Force has reported
and been assigned to the command of the Vicksburg District, relieving Maltby.
Force is a good officer and I am glad to get him. Charley Ewing has not yet
come.
Woods has been very
sick at Mobile but is better. I have met many of your old officers and soldiers
since we parted, and all of them, without exception, are "loyal."
I enclose an order
just published. I did not like to take this step; but Sharkey should have
consulted me before issuing an order arming the rebs and placing them on duty
with the darkies in every county of the State. I hope the U. S. Military will
soon be removed from the State, but until this is done it would certainly be
bad policy to arm the militia.
St. Louis, Mo.
SOURCE: New York
(State). Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and
Chattanooga, In Memoriam: Henry Warner
Slocum, 1826-1894, p. 105
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