These were the same troops which had been ordered by Mr.Cameron when at Louisville, and they were all that I received thereafter, prior to my leaving Kentucky.

On reaching Washington, Mr.Cameron called on General Thomas, as he himself afterward told me, to submit his memorandum of events during his absence, and in that memorandum was mentioned my insane request for two hundred thousand men.

By some newspaper man this was seen and published, and, before I had the least conception of it, I was universally published throughout the country as "insane, crazy," etc.

Without any knowledge, however, of this fact, I had previously addressed to the Adjutant-General of the army at Washington this letter: HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OP THE CUMBERLAND, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, October 22, 1881.
To General L.THOMAS, Adjutant-General, Washington, D.C.
Sir: On my arrival at Camp Dick Robinson, I found General Thomas had stationed a Kentucky regiment at Rock Castle Hill, beyond a river of the same name, and had sent an Ohio and an Indiana regiment forward in support.

He was embarrassed for transportation, and I authorized him to hire teams, and to move his whole force nearer to his advance-guard, so as to support it, as he had information of the approach of Zollicoffer toward London.