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at Corinth, Miss., and wanted to be there to supervise relief^^ 
as well as to see “about regimental reorganization”.^^ While 
there he was at General Halleck’s headquarters.'^^ Steamboats 
plied hurriedly between Pittsburg Landing and Indiana towns 
between May 10 and 15, 1862, carrying home Indiana sick 
and convalescent soldiers, and carrying back soldiers going to 
rejoin their regiments, and nurses, surgeons, and hospital 
supplies for the seemingly impending battle.®^ 
Then there were numerous outstanding cases of state organ- 
izations sending relief to regiments at times not occasioned by 
battles, or by battles of importance. In March, 1862, Indiana 
troops near New Madrid were greatly in need of clothing, and 
Morton offered to supply it from Indianapolis in case there 
was not a sufficient supply on hand,'^® but General Halleck com- 
placently answered that there was plenty of clothing at St. 
Louis and Cairo which would be issued upon requisition.'^'^ 
Moreover, pay was due, but the men there had not been paid 
for six months because of lack of ready funds, so Morton urged 
Robert Dale Owen to have money sent to St. Louis for that 
purpose.^® Nor was this done, so on March 31 Holloway again 
reminded Halleck that Indiana regiments under General Pope 
were in need of uniforms, and offered to furnish them from 
Indianapolis.®® To this Plalleck again insisted that the quar- 
termaster had an abundance of good clothing and filled every 
requisition as soon as it came in his quartermaster said that 
no requisition had been made for clothing for Indiana regi- 
ments.®^ 
But such arguments over the requirements of red tape did 
not protect the men from the March winds, and W. R. Hollo- 
way sent word to Colonel Graham N. Fitch, of the Forty- 
sixth Indiana, at Point Pleasant, Mo., that he had done every- 
thing possible to induce General Halleck to allow his wants to 
52 /bid.. Ill, 236, 254, 258. 
53 iii^ 238. 
54 /bid.. Ill, 260. 
55 /bid.. Ill, 215, 216, 221, 226, 227, 236, 237, 240 ; ibid., IV, 5. 
5« General Despatches, III, 110. 
57 /bid.. Ill, 111. 
58 /bid,. III, 113, 118. 
59 /bid.. Ill, 114, 182, 183, 260. On March 29, 1862, W. R. Holloway notified R. D. 
Owen at Washington : “Please see if the money cannot be sent without delay. These 
poor fellows’ families are suffering for the necessities of life. Humanity demands that 
they be paid at the earliest possible moment.” Ibid., Ill, 112. 
«o/bid., HI, 115. 
61 /bid., HI, 115. 
