He assured me--and I have no doubt Swinton gave him the assurance--that he was not present as a correspondent of the press.

I expressed an entire willingness to have him (Swinton) accompany the army, and would have allowed him to do so as a correspondent, restricted, however, in the character of the information he could give.

We received Richmond papers with about as much regularity as if there had been no war, and knew that our papers were received with equal regularity by the Confederates.

It was desirable, therefore, that correspondents should not be privileged spies of the enemy within our lines.
Probably Mr.Swinton expected to be an invited guest at my headquarters, and was disappointed that he was not asked to become so.

At all events he was not invited, and soon I found that he was corresponding with some paper (I have now forgotten which one), thus violating his word either expressed or implied.