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[1] ALS, RPB, Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase (1874), p. 528. The letters of General James A. Garfield and Benjamin F. Flanders have not been located. Colonel Abel D. Streight commanding a raiding party sent from Tuscumbia, Alabama, to cut railroads,
was captured with 1,600 men by General Nathan Bedford Forrest near Rome, Georgia, on May 3, 1863.
[2] Flanders was appointed supervising special agent of the Treasury Department at New Orleans.
[3] See Lincoln to Chase, May 11, supra.