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nt results we have lost by the two causes referred to! Again, we must have a few more field-officers from the old service, otherwise our regiments will get worsted sooner or later. In haste, yours truly, G. T. Beauregard. On the 1st of August he forwarded the following telegram to Colonel A. C. Myers, Assistant Quartermaster-General: Several of my brigades are entirely destitute of transportation; no advance can be made until procured. Can you not send me about one hundre The same surprise and want of knowledge expressed by President Davis, concerning the deficiency of these two departments, was also manifested—strange to say—by the QuartermasterGen-eral himself. His communication to General Beauregard, dated August 1st, establishes the almost incredible fact that the head of one of the most important of our departments did not know the state of its affairs. This was but additional evidence of improvidence and mismanagement. There was this difference, howeve