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[280] my own army, I simply ask to be permitted to share their fate on the field of battle.

On the 30th, the following order was issued from the War Department:--

War Department, August 30, 1862.
The following are the commanders of the armies operating in Virginia:--

General Burnside commands his own corps, except those that have been temporarily detached and assigned to General Pope.

General McClellan commands that portion of the Army of the Potomac that has not been sent forward to General Pope's command.

General Pope commands the Army of Virginia and all the forces temporarily attached to it. All the forces are under the command of Major-General Halleck, general-in-chief.

E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General.

The practical effect of this order was that General McClellan had no control over anybody, except his staff, some hundred men in camp near Alexandria, and a few troops at Fortress Monroe.

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