Now, my question....in her book, Tattered Glory, Nancy Dane has a dispatch from Holmes to Hindman that says, in part: ( 11-14-1862) there is another matter about which I fear we shall have a great to do soon. They have ordered all the officers appointed by the generals east of the miss. to be relieved or discharged, those with army commissions to return to their army rank and those without such rank to be discharged. I suppose the blow will come on us next. Please, therefore do not make any appointments of any kind not strictly in accordance with the law.Every vacancy to bee filled to be filled by promotion or election, unless the promotion falls on an unworthy subject.
What brought this on and what was the result?
Ed