HALLECK.
And subsequently, in a letter to Hon.

Thomas Ewing, in answer to some inquiries involving the same general subject, General Halleck wrote as follows: Hon.

THOMAS EWING, Lancaster, Ohio.
DEAR SIR: Your note of the 13th, and one of this date, from Mr.
Sherman, in relation to Brigadier-General Sherman's having being relieved from command in Sedalia, in November last, are just received.

General Sherman was not put in command at Sedalia; he was authorized to assume it, and did so for a day or two.

He did not know my plans, and his movement of troops did not accord with them.