going to read something from another interesting character, charles a danner was officially second -- secretary of war. but everyone then he was a spy. his job was to go and report to the war department on what was going on. this is what he wrote to washington right after the battle. this is a time when honesty is paramount. when you want to know what's really happening. this is what he wrote. he said i can testify to conspicuous and steady gallantry of rosecrans on the field. he made all possible effort to rally the broken colonies. nor do i see that there was any fault in the disposition of his forces. later he would start to write more critically and he would accuse rosecrans of being despondent. it's on the basis of these dispatches that rosecrans was relieved of command. you may have heard the quote of lincoln that rosecrans was stunned like a duck hit on the hand -- on the head. lincoln could only know what he many of those things were coming from charles a danner. .o rosecrans was relieved since we are in richmond here, let me read something from the richmond examiner. it says

lincoln could only know what he was reading, many of those things were coming from charles a danner. so rosecrans was relieved. since we are in richmond here, let me read something from the richmond examiner. it says meanwhile, lincoln is helping us. he has removed from command the most dangerous man in his army and put two fools in his place. a variety of mean pretext for rosecrans's removal had been published by the yankee press. rosecrans thus retired as unquestionably the greatest captain the yankee nation has yet produced. his performance in the field is too fresh in the memory of every reader to necessitate recapitulation. this is a man few people even know about today. grant, who after vicksburg was kind of idle, and it wasn't necessarily his desire, he visited several cities, including new orleans, where he falls off a horse and hurt his leg very badly. but then right before chickamauga he is summoned to louisville, kentucky. this is after the battle. there are two sets of orders. grant will be in overall command, but one set of orders leaves rosecrans in charge of the army o