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public, as the efficiency which it would probably impart to the operations of our forces on that theatre. Yielding to these suggestions, the committee unanimously agreed that an effort should be made to procure your transfer to the Army of the West. To that end, I was directed to consult the President on the propriety of the measure, and, in case he should approve it, I was requested to solicit your own acquiescence in the transfer. The President having avowed his readiness to order you West, on the oondition that you were not averse to the change, I went to Centreville to obtain your consent. I remember you evinced the greatest reluctance to be detached from the Army of the Potomac, but, yielding at last to my earnest importunities, urged with an exclusive reference to the public interest, and supported by the written entreaties and arguments of representatives from the States chiefly concerned, you were pleased to give a qualified assent to the proposed transfer. What your co