The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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It is in this dispatch that General McClellan finds his
authority to halt Franklin at Anandale. Franklin had
been repeatedly ordered to join Pope, but had been delayed by McClellan, who evidently did not intend he
should get beyond his control if possible.
In his telegram to Halleck of one o'clock P. M. of the
29th, he asks if he may do as seems to him best with
all the troops in the vicinity of Alexandria, including
Franklin-Franklin being still in the vicinity of Alexandria. Halleck, in giving him authority to dispose of all
troops in his vicinity evidently refers to the disposition
to be made of those for the forts and defences, for he proceeds to say, I want "Franklin's Corps to go far enoulgh
to find out something about the enemy." Franklin's
Corps did not go out far enough to learn any thing about
the enemy. What he learned he picked up at Anandale
fiom citizens, and probably from Banks's wagon-train,
which passed him as it came from the front, which it
seems it was able to do with safety at the time McClellan
considered it too hazardous for forty thousand men to
move to the front to join the army.
It is unnecessary to pursue this matter any further, and
show, as might easily be done, how similar delays were
procured with respect to other troops which might have
been sent to re-enforce Pope. It is sufficient to say that
forty thousand men, exclusive of Burnside's force, were
thus-as it seems to us intentionally-withheld from Pope
at the time he was engaged in holding the army of Lee in
check.
Having thus disposed of the question of re-eaforcemengs,
it now remains to say a word about supplies, which General McClellan says he left nothing undone to forward to
Pope.
When at Fort Monroe he telegraphed (August 21st, 10.
62P. M.):I have ample supplies of ammunition for infantry and artillery, and
will have it up in time. I can supply any deficiency that may ezist in
General Pope's army.