... Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief, U. S. Army, Headquarters army of the C. S., near Richmond, August 2. To the General Commanding the Army of the United States , Washington: General: On the twenty-ninth of June last, I was instructed by the Secretary of War to in quire of Major-General McClellan as to the truth of alleged murders committed on our citizen...