197), but it seems to be only an abstract of it, made to accompany his dispatch to Washington (_Id_., p.

198), and by a clerical error given the form of the complete letter.

It does not contain the quotation given above, which was reiterated before the letter was closed, in these words: "Remember that my present plan is to cut them off by a rapid march from Beverly after driving those in front of me across the mountains, and do all you can to favor that by avoiding offensive movements." After the printing of the earlier volumes of the Records, covering the years 1861-1862, I learned that the books and papers of the Department of the Ohio had not been sent to Washington at the close of the war, but were still in Cincinnati.

I brought this fact to the attention of the Adjutant-General, and at the request of that officer obtained and forwarded them to the Archives office.

With them were my letter books and the original files of my correspondence with McClellan and Rosecrans in 1861 and 1862.
Colonel Robert N.Scott, who was then in charge of the publication, informed me that the whole would be prepared for printing and would appear in the supplemental volumes, after the completion of the rest of the First Series.