...beyond my own territorial command. General Halleck himself, in his Orders No. 1, defines his own limits clearly enough, viz.: Such part of North Carolina as was not occupied by the command of Major- General Schofield . He could not pursue and cut off Johnston's retreat toward Saulsbury and Charlotte without invading my command, and so patent was his purpose to defy and violate my truce that Mr. Stanton's publica...