This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...couple of lines drawn diagonally across the page, and whether left in or taken out, it could not have altered, in the very slightest degree, the conclusions of the Commissioners. The same observation applies to the omitted statement respecting the watchcoats, which formed the last paragraph of Colonel "Wetherall's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...couple of lines drawn diagonally across the page, and whether left in or taken out, it could not have altered, in the very slightest degree, the conclusions of the Commissioners. The same observation applies to the omitted statement respecting the watchcoats, which formed the last paragraph of Colonel "Wetherall's evidence, but was not printed in the evidence of that officer, in the Commissioners' Report; it was to the following effect: --"With reference to the watch coats, 1,200 were issued early in December, and on the 21st of December 1,200 more, and on the 4th January 1,100. That on the 2nd December about 2,000 watch coats were in store, of which 1,200 were issued as above." Page 100 of Commissioners' Appendix This explanation was, however, liable to exception, in so far as the returns furnished to the Commissioners by Mr. Archer, of the issues from the QuartermasterGeneral's stores, showed that only 458 watch coats had been given out in the whole month of December; whereas, 1200 were stated by Colonel Wetherall to have been issued early in December, and 1200 more on the 21st December. Even the possibility that Colonel "Wetherall might have meant "numbers authorized to be issued," instead of numbers actually received by the men, would not have explained this discrepancy, because Proreedta s f e return furnished by the Quartermaster-General Board, p. 472. himself, and noted on the margin, showed that the troops had actually received in the month of December 1061, being more than double what Mr. Archer had stated to have left the store. There was, obviously, a most serious error somewhere, which the Commissioners did not discover till Colonel Wetherall was gone, and which they could not have allowed to pass without comment, ha...
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