More men were required the farther the National troops penetrated into the enemy's country.

I, with an army sufficiently powerful to have destroyed Bragg, was purely on the defensive and accomplishing no more than to hold a force far inferior to my own.
On the 2d of August I was ordered from Washington to live upon the country, on the resources of citizens hostile to the government, so far as practicable.

I was also directed to "handle rebels within our lines without gloves," to imprison them, or to expel them from their homes and from our lines.

I do not recollect having arrested and confined a citizen (not a soldier) during the entire rebellion.

I am aware that a great many were sent to northern prisons, particularly to Joliet, Illinois, by some of my subordinates with the statement that it was my order.