...y that I gave my orders properly, and that under the circumstances the battle could not have been managed better. This I write that the public may not judge me before I have time to be heard. Capt Haggerty and Major Winthrop, of Gen. Butler's Staff, were with me and advising me to do as I did. Gen. Butler has not intimated to me as yet that he blames me at all. In haste, yours, &c., E. W. Pier...