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me reported to the War Department the use of Government transportation for getting out cotton for traders, but he did not report it to me. Whitelaw Reid, in his sketch of him in Ohio in the War, no doubt on Mitchel's authority, gives me a credit to which I am not entitled, as having said to Mitchel at Huntsville that I would myself resign rather than that the country should be deprived of his valuable services. General Mitchel was at last assigned to a sort of local command at Hilton Head, South Carolina, and died there from yellow fever under circumstances which inspired general sympathy, within a very few months after his departure from Huntsville. postscript.--The foregoing notes were in the hands of the editors of this work when there appeared a biography of General Mitchel written by his son (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) This biography as well as a book called Daring and suffering by the Rev. William Pittenger, attach great importance to the expedition under Andrews ag