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nown record: Arlington. Sept. 5, 12.05 P. M. Maj.-Gen. Halleck, Gen.-in-Chief: I have just received an order from Gen. McClellan to have my command in readiness to march with three days rations, and further details of the march. What is my command, and where is it? McClellan has scattered it about in all directions, and has not informed me of the position of a single regiment. Am I to take the field, and under McClellan's orders? Jno. Pope, Maj.-Gen. Washington D. C., Sept. 5, 1862. Maj.-Gen. Pope, Arlington. The armies of the Potomac and Virginia being consolidated, you will report for orders to the Secretary of War. H. W. Halleck, Gen.-in-chief. as best we might while on the march, and after the close of the battles so much remained to be done to place the army in condition for a campaign that the delay which ensued was absolutely unavoidable, and the army could not have entered upon a new campaign one day earlier than it did. The purpose of advancing fro