[Footnote: _Id_., pp.

670, 691.] This gave me substantially the same territorial jurisdiction I had in the summer, but with a larger body of troops.
Before we left Gauley Bridge, however, I received orders direct from army headquarters at Washington to take my three oldest Ohio regiments and report to General Buell in Kentucky.

This was exactly in accordance with my own strong desire to join a large army on one of the principal lines of operation.

I therefore went joyfully to Rosecrans, supposing, of course, that he also had received orders to send me away.

To my intense chagrin I found that he not only was without such orders, but that he was, naturally enough, disposed to take umbrage at the sending of orders direct to me.