...-I think it may be better to advance General Toombs' s brigade, till he can bring Franklin's working parties under the fire of his short-range arms, so that the working parties may be broken up. General Whiting , who was apprehensive of bayous and parallels, complained of sickness in his command, and asked a change of position from the unfair Fair Oaks. Though of brilliant, highly cultivated mind, the dark...