The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-12

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Under the War Department order OF
Yesterday, haye no control over anything
except my staff some one hundred men IN
my camp here I'D the fsw remaining near
,Kort M0nree. @
. / havs no control. orer he new regi>
ments do not know whers they are or
ANYTHING shout them, except those near
here. Their commanding oficers and those
of the works are not under me. Where l
have seen evils existing under my own eye,
I have corrected them. think it 10 the
business of General Casey to prepare the
new regiments for the field, and matter
between him and General Bal nard to or
der others TO vicinity Of Chain Bridge
Neither of them is under my command, and
by the War Department order, | have no
right to give them ORDERS
- - :" G. B. McOLELLAN,
General HALLEcK, Washington.
To which the following is an answer.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 81, 1862-10.7 P. N.
Since, receiving your despatch, relating to
command, / have not been able to answer
any not of absolute necessity. l have not
seen the order as published. but will writ
to you in the morning. You will retain
the command of everything in this vicinity
not temporarily to be Popes army in the
field. ,'r' '"f1'A'*'.
I6ey of you to assist me in this crisis with
your ability and experience. lam entirely
tired out. H. ". HALLEcK,
,s. General in Chief.
Major General MCCLELLAN.
The order referred to in the preceding
dispatches was as follows: .l.ts
WAR DEPARTMENT }
Aug. 80, 1862.
The following are the commanders of the
armies operating in Virginia.
General Burnside commands his own
corps, except those who have been tempo
rarily detached and assigned to General
Pope. -
General Mcclellan commands that por>
ton of the Army of the Potomac that has
not been sent forward to General Pope's
command.
General Pope commands the Army Of Vir.
ginia and all the forces temporarily attached
to it. ,..ra .. 4a,3.
All the forces are under command Of
Major General HALLEcK, General in Chief
'o-- E. D. TOWNSEND,
e-1 Assistant Adjutant General
General MCCLELLAN adds, 81 was in
formed by Col. TOWNSEND that the above
was published by order of the Secretary Of
War" The deliberate and gratuitous in
suit to General MCCLELLAN which the order
contains was, doubtless, considered mas
terpiece of irony by Secretary STANTON
''That portion of the Army of the Poto'
mac which had not been sent forward te
PopEs command consisted" only of few
inyalids at Alexandria and ut Fortress
Monroe aud it was to this command" that
Major General MCCLELLAN was assigned by
the Secretary of War
The defeat of PoPE and the utter de-
moraization of his army was the work Of
the next two days. The effect it had upon
those who, at Washington, had combined
to insult MCCLELLAN and to substitute
"my plan" for the one approved BY military
aeninus and skill, may be best told in the
language of the official report. f..
On the morning Of the 25th of Septem-
ber tho President and General HALLEcE
came to my house, when the President in
formed me that Colonel KELToN had re-
turned from the front; that our affairs
were in bad condition; that the army was
in full retreat upon the defences of Wash
ington; the roads filed with stragglers, &c.
He instructed me to take steps at once to
stop aud collect the stragglers, to place the
works in proper state of defence, and to
60 out to meet, and take command OF the
army when it approached the vicinity OF
the works then to put the troops in the
best position for defence; committing
everything to my hands"
The Capital was saved!
we are constantly informed that the
rebels arc our allies. We have no very