General D.Twiggs was in command of the department, with Colonel W.W.

S.Bliss (son-in-law of General Taylor) as his adjutant-general.

Colonel A.
C.Myers was quartermaster, Captain John F.Reynolds aide-de-camp, and Colonel A.J.Coffee paymaster.

I took rooms at the St.Louis Hotel, kept by a most excellent gentleman, Colonel Mudge.
Mr.Perry Seawell came to me in person, soliciting a continuance of the custom which he had theretofore enjoyed; but I told him frankly that a change was necessary, and I never saw or heard of him afterward.

I simply purchased in open market, arranged for the proper packing of the stores, and had not the least difficulty in supplying the troops and satisfying the head of the department in Washington.
About Christmas, I had notice that my family, consisting of Mrs.
Sherman, two children, and nurse, with my sister Fanny (now Mrs.
Moulton, of Cincinnati, Ohio), were en route for New Orleans by steam-packet; so I hired a house on Magazine Street, and furnished it.