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VOLUME II.

FIRST MEETING WITH SECRETARY STANTION—GENERAL ROSECRANS—COMMANDING MILITARY DIVISION OF MISSISSIPPI—ANDREW JOHNSON′S ADDRESS—ARRIVAL AT CHATTANOOGA.

HE reply (to my telegram of October, from Cairo, announcing my arrival at that point) came on the morning of the th, directing me to proceed immediately to the Galt House, Louisville, where I would meet an officer of the War Department with my instructions. I left Cairo within an hour or two after the receipt of this dispatch, going by rail via Indianapolis. Just as the train I was on was starting out of the depot at Indianapolis a messenger came running up to stop it, saying the. II—