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, and supplies furnished to troops in and around Washington could properly be charged and reported as furnished to McClellan's command. It is not probable that Mr. Lincoln's attention was ever called to the existence of this order. For it is a remarkable fact than, when he finally consented to displace McClellan, he gave the order that he be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac --a command which Gen. McClellan had not held by any authority since Aug. 30. B.--Capt. William H. Powell, of the 4th Regular Infantry, in a letter to the Century, dated Fort Omaha, Neb., March 12, 1885, thus describes this scene [Century, January, 1886, p. 473]: About four o'clock on the next afternoon, from a prominent point, we descried in the distance the dome of the Capitol. We would be there at least in time to defend it. Darkness came upon us, and still we marched. As the night wore on we found at each halt that it was more and more difficult to arouse the men from the sl