April 16, 1864
---In
spite of Sherman’s orders that A.J. Smith and his divisions leave Louisiana
immediately and return to Chattanooga, Gen. Banks forbids the move, insisting
to Smith that it is “impossible for me to dispense with your services.”
---George
Templeton Strong, in New York City, writes in his journal about the state of
the market and of the nation:
Gold keeps at about 170 and exchange was bought
today at 200! Insolvency is imminent. Congress is inefficient. The country seems drifting to leeward. I dread the newspaper attacks and queries and
criticism to which the Sanitary Commission is about to be exposed on its
receipt of the proceeds of this fair, and I have my doubts and difficulties
about this question of our establishing sanitaria. Everything looks black and life is a failure
today. . . .
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