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tal, the importance of the subject weighed so heavily upon me as to lead to correspondence with the generals, which will be best understood by the following extracts from my letters to them which are here appended: Richmond, Virginia, October 10, 1861. Major-General G. W. Smith, Army of Potomac. . . . How have you progressed in the solution of the problem I left—the organization of the troops with reference to the States, and term of service? If the volunteers continue their complaintthat might be achieved if those wants were supplied, should overlook the necessities of others, and accept rumors of large forces which do not exist, and assume the absence of danger elsewhere than in his own front. Richmond, Virginia, October 10, 1861. Major-General G. W. Smith, Army of the Potomac. . . . Your remarks about the moral effect of repressing the hope of the volunteers for an advance are in accordance with the painful impression made on me when, in our council, it was revea