General Twiggs resented this, but the merchant again affirmed it, and gave names.

As soon as General Twiggs reached his office, he instructed his adjutant-general, Colonel Bliss--who told me this--to address a categorical note of inquiry to Major Waggaman.

The major very frankly stated the facts as they had arisen, and insisted that the firm of Perry Seawell & Co.

had enjoyed a large patronage, but deserved it richly by reason of their promptness, fairness, and fidelity.

The correspondence was sent to Washington, and the result was, that Major Waggaman was ordered to St.Louis, and I was ordered to New Orleans.
I went down to New Orleans in a steamboat in the month of September, 1852, taking with me a clerk, and, on arrival, assumed the office, in a bank-building facing Lafayette Square, in which were the offices of all the army departments.