eneral Polk, just from the command of that department, and my telegraphic correspondence with his successor, Lieutenant-General S. D. Lee, gave me reason to hope that a competent force could be sent from Mississippi and Alabama to prevent the use of the railroad by the United States army.
I therefore suggested it to the President directly, on the 13th of June and 16th of July, and through General Bragg on the 30th, 12th, 13th, and 26th of June; and also to Lieutenant-General Lee on the 10th of May, and 3d, 11th and of June.
I did so in the belief that this cavalry would serve the Confederacy better by causing the of Major-General Sherman's army than by a raid in Mississippi.
Besides the causes of my removal, alleged in the telegram announcing it, various other have been made against me — some published in newspapers in such a manner as to appear to have official authority, and others circulated orally Georgia and Alabama, and imputed to General Bragg.
The principal
