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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), chapter 8 (search)
, therefore, was not justified by any existing circumstances. The order was issued when the secession of several States was already an accomplished fact, and the Secretary of War selected the very moment for its signature when the respected chief of the Ordnance Bureau, Colonel Craig, was absent. If this order, which would have put the Confederates in possession of valuable resources, was not executed, it is because the Secretary had no time to see it fulfilled, and because his successor, Mr. Holt, hastened to revoke it. We persist, therefore, in thinking that Mr. Floyd failed in the performance of his duty by taking advantage of his official position to favor the arming of the States which were on the eve of insurrection against the government of which he formed a part; but while deeming him guilty on this point, we willingly acknowledge that the harm which he thus inflicted on the Federal army was of less magnitude than we had imagined when we published the first part of this hi