...r which he was leaving, and the length of time he proposed being absent. III. Mr. Davis's assertion that the order assigning another to the command he had abandoned could not be sent through him ( General Beauregard ), when he had departed and gone to a place where there was no telegraph and rarely a mail, is, indeed, extraordinary, to say the least of it. Mobile was not an inaccessible place, nor was Bladon Spri...