Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-05-21
" Deduct sick and in arrest and confinement. AS

Total present for duty -l9,G2
81 have mounted light artillery under my command
Several companies the artillery of the Army
Of the Potomac sthere but not under my com land or
From this force am ordered by Gen Mcclellan to de-
tail two regiments good ones join Rich ardsons division
Summers eorpsl as It passes Aex ndra one rsg
Hentzemans old vision regiment to relieves regi-
Rockers division at Blu ids Ferry. Total four
giments
. ordered this morning, by telegraph to send four
thousand relieve Gen. sumner Manassas and War
renton, that he may embark forthwith. IL
In regard to the chaac and efficiency Of the troops
under command have to state hst nearly all the force
lie asd mp rfecy disciplined that several OF the reg-
ments in very dsorganized condition, from various
which not to state here several reg-
into the field in consequence their untnes for service
the best regiments remaining having been selected to take
their place. a.f t1 tsG.a ~ 9
Two heavy artillery regiments and infantry regi-
ment which had been drilled for months in artillery
eide Of the Potomac and have only been able to fill their
p aces with very new inf.ntry regiments entirely uuac
quained with the duties OF that arm and OF little no value
ia their present position
lam not informed to the position which Major Gen.
Banks ia dreced to take but at this time he is
stand the other eide of the Bull Run Mountains leaving
command the front, from the Manassas Gap
(about twenty miles beyond Manassas to Aqua Creek
deem my duty that, looking The numerical
strength and character Of force under command il
poant dny which iii assg ed regard very mpro-
baoe that the will assa at this oint but this be-
lief based upon The hope that they may be promptly
gged elsewhere and learn the number and the cha
racter OF the force left here.
have the hodor 10 be your ohedient servau
JAS 3 WApswoRTH
Bhgadier General and Military Governor.
" Hon Secretary Of War"
Those communications brought to the consideration
of the President by the Secretary of War The subject
was at referred the Adutan General of the army
aud MAI Gen f. A. Hitchcock with instructions to report
whether the orders of the President had been
piled with"
The day after this report written the President
directed the Secretary of War 10 order corps of the
Army Of the Potomac to remain in front Of Washington
until further orders. The corps OF Gen Mcdowell, beg
the only corps ming in tact here selected to
main, without the knowledge of Gen. Mcdowell he being
engaged at the time of receiving this order ia making
preparations to Immediately follow the rect of the army 10
the Peninsula.
The committee here insert the report of Msor General
Hitchcock and Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas. II
recapulaes the Presidents orders and the above er Of
Gen Mcclellan enumerang the force left for the defence
OF Washington and then in view Of the foregoing report
Of Gen Wadsworth Gems. Hitchcock and Thomas say
If there was need of military OF the
city Of Washington within s limits that referred in
the report Of Gen Waisworh woud 10 BE- entirely in
adequate In view of the opinion sed by the council of
the of army Of the frcs necessary for the de
the capital though numerically stated and Of the
scented by Gen Mcclellan lie Tor purpose
the opinion that the requiem pts Of the President
that the city shall be leC entirely secure, only Ia the
Of the Army Corps also has not been fully complied with
The report. from which he above is extract, ap-
pesred in the Iutegencer Of the 2lst of January last
Other important papers relative to the same subject APP
peaed at the same tme and aso in Issues Of the 18th
and 26th Of January and Of the 9th Of April Amongst
these papers reports Of Gen Barry the chief of ar
ery and of Col Green command OF portion Of it, 10
direct contradiction of the report of Gen Wadsworh.