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The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
fore he left the Department, had, without the knowledge of the President, ordered 113 columbiads and 11 32 po nders to be transported from Pittsburg to Ship island and Galveston, in Mississippi and Texas. This fact was brought to the knowledge of the President by a communication from Pittsburg; and Secretary Holt immediately thereafter countermanded the order of his predecessor, and the cannon were never sent. The promptitude with which we acted elicited a vote of thanks, dated the 4th of January, 1861, from the Select and Common Councils of that city "to the President the Attorney General, and the Acting Secretary of War. " (Mr. Holt) After this statement how shall we account for the explicit declaration of Gen Scott that, "accidentally hearing early in March that under this posthumous order (that of Mr. Floyd of the 22d December,) the shipment of these guns had commenced I communicated the fact to Secretary Holt, acting for Secretary Cameron) just in time to do that the robb