Annotation
[1] ALS, IHi. Stanton replied on March 28, enclosing papers in relation to the promotion of Colonel George W. B. Tompkins of the Eighty-second New York Infantry. Under date of March 17, George T. Brown, sergeant-at-arms to the Committee on the Conduct of the War, reported that Colonel Tompkins had been useful in testifying when Brown was gathering evidence against General Charles P. Stone, and that Tompkins should be protected against reprisals from Stone (DLC-RTL). A letter from General McClellan to Stanton dated March 24 in relation to Brown's report, stated that Stone's charges against Tompkins were misbehavior before the enemy at Bull Run and a set of charges involving a false muster, and that since the papers were with General Nathaniel P. Banks and Stone no longer in command, Tompkins need fear no injustice (ibid.). Tompkins was not made a brigadier and left the service May 26, 1862.