He telegraphed me that he would be off by that date.
He has not yet started, or had not at last advices.

I ordered him to send Stoneman from East Tennessee into Northwest South Carolina, to be there about the time you would reach Columbia.

He would either have drawn off the enemy's cavalry from you, or would have succeeded in destroying railroads, supplies, and other material, which you could not reach.

At that time the Richmond papers were full of the accounts of your movements, and gave daily accounts of movements in West North Carolina.

I supposed all the time it was Stoneman.