1861]  THE  FIELD   TRANSPORTATION.  383

"  N.  B. — It  may  be  well  to  add  that  General  It.  Lindsey  Walker
(then  Captain  Walker,  of  the  battery  referred  to)  is  now  in  my
office,  and  confirms  my  recollection.  ...  J.  F.  L."

The  quartermaster-general  of  General  Beauregard's  com-
mand, W.  L.  Cabell,  states  in  a  letter  written  at  Dallas,  Texas,
on  the  16th  of  August,  1880,  in  regard  to  the  field  transporta-
tion of  General  Beauregard's  forces  before  the  battle  of  Ma-
nassas, that  as  nearly  as  he  could  remember  it  was  as  follows,
viz. :

One  four-horse  wagon  to  each  company.
One     "        "        "      for  field  and  staff  (regimental).
One     "         "         "       "    ammunition.
One    "        "        "      "    hospital  purposes.
Two    "        "  wagons  "    each  battery  of  artillery.
Twenty-five  wagons  in  a  train  for  depot  purposes.
One  ambulance  for  each  regiment.
Transportation  belonging  to  General  Johnston's  army  did
not  arrive  until  the  day  (or  probably  two  days)  after  the  battle.
If  General  Johnston,  as  stated,  had  nine  thousand  infantry,
the  field  transportation  reported  above  could  surely  have  been
distributed  so  as  to  supply  this  additional  force,  and  have  ren-
dered, as  General  Early  states,  the  pretense  wholly  untenable
that  the  advance  in  July,  1861,  was  prevented  by  want  of  trans-
portation.
