Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for October, 6 AD or search for October, 6 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
et inability to promise more troops, as we have drained resources even to the danger of several points. You know best concerning Gen. Bragg's army; but I fear to withdraw more. We are too far outnumbered in Virginia to spare any." &c., &c. On the 8th June the Secretary was more explicit, if possible. He said: "Do you advise more reinforcements from Gen. Bragg? You, as commandant of the department, have power so to order, if you in view of the whole case, so determine." On the 10th June, you answered that it was for the Government to determine what department could furnish the reinforcements; that you could not know how Gen. Bragg's wants compared with yours; and that the Government could make the comparison. Your statements, that the Government in Richmond was better able to judge of the relative necessities of the armies under your command than you were, and the further statement, that you could not know how General Bragg's wants compared with yours, were considered ext