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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 17: Pope's campaign in Virginia. (search)
disregard for my orders, took no part whatever, except in the battle of the 80th of August. Pope afterward formally preferred charges against Porter of misconduct before the enemy. Porter was tried by a Court-martial, which, in January, 1863, pronounced a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to be cashiered, and be forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States. at the request of the President the whole case was reviewed by Joseph Holt, then Judge Advocate-General, when the sentence was approved and executed. strenuous but ineffectual efforts were made by the President and the General-in-chief to bring the Army of the Potomac to the aid of the Army of Virginia in confronting Lee, and through it to furnish Pope with supplies. The official electrographs that passed between the President and General Halleck and General McClellan exhibit the same indisposition on the part of the latter to promptly comply with the orders