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at Tupelo he had 18,500 infantry and artillery, and 2,306 cavalry. I again quote from General Hood's report: Here, finding so much dissatisfaction throughout the country, as, in my judgment, greatly to impair, if not destroy, my usefulness, and counteract my exertions, and with no desire but to serve my country, I asked to be relieved, with the hope that another might be assigned to the command who might do more than I could hope to accomplish. Accordingly, I was so relieved on the 23d of January, by authority of the President. Though, as General Hood states in his book, page 273, I was averse to his going into Tennessee, he might well assume that I was not, as General Beauregard and himself, acquainted with the true condition of the army when they decided on the Tennessee campaign. Of the manner in which he conducted it, Isham G. Harris, the governor of Tennessee, a man of whose judgment, integrity, and manhood I had the highest opinion, wrote to me, on December 25, 1864: