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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Potter investigating Commitee--the Yankees Overhauling Gen. Floyd--interesting particulars. (search)
rnish the munitions of war for the intended rebellion; and, second, that he was privy to the sale, by Floyd, of 100,000 or more muskets to A. A. Belknap, and 20,000 to other parties, in violation of law, and to the great detriment of the public service, the object being to disarm the Government and to arm its rebel enemies. Lieutenant-Colonel Maynadier, in executing, or attempting to execute, the order of Floyd, for the transmission of 141 of the largest cannon from Pittsburg to the Gulf of Mexico, did it with the full knowledge that one of the forts was unfinished, and the other not even begun. It is scarcely less clear that Maynadier must have known or believed that the object of Floyd in giving the order was to disarm the Government, and to arm its rebel enemies. He is conceded to be one of the most intelligent men in the army, and has been in the Ordnance Department as assistant for nearby twenty years.--He speaks with evident pride of the confidence reposed in him by Jeffer