Report Board of Army Officers

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Excerpt from Report Board of Army Officers: In Used by Special Orders No, 7s, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, April 12, 1878 On the recent hearing before the board of officers who met at West Point in 1878, new evidence was given on this point against Porter by - Colonel J. S. Buchanan, Major Duval, Corporal Solomon Thomas, Brevet Major W. Bullard, Lieutenant Charles Dwight, Private Murray, Dr. W. L. Faxon, Major Rufus R. Dawes On the hearing before the board, new evidence was given in favor of Porter by - General Warren, General Ruggles, General R. C. Buchanan, General Patrick, General Ruggles, Captain Randal I submit, upon examination of all this testimony, any fair-minded man must conclude the darkness of the night and the obstructions were such as fully justified Porter in delaying from one to three o'clock. II. That he did not obey the joint order of the morning of August 29th, 1862, to General McDowell and himself, to move toward Gainesville. The witnesses against Porter on this point were - General McDowell, General Pope, General Roberts, Colonel Smith, Captain Smith The answer to this charge is that Porter met the forces of Longstreet when he reached Dawkins' branch and could not go further. That McDowell took the command as senior in rank, and told Porter he was too far out, that was no place to fight a battle, that he (McDowell) then took Ricketts' and King's divisions off and moved up the Sudley road, and thus deprived Porter of the force necessary to carry out the order any further, and by his course destroyed the binding effect of that order, that Porter being too weak in force to attack Longstreet's force of 25, 000 men with the 8000 or 10, 000 men left him by McDowell, did all he could do, viz., he held Longstreet in check and kept himself in readiness to fall back behind Bull Run, that night, as ordered by the joint order. In this he was sustained by the evidence of - General Morell, General Griffin About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.