You either ride with me or collided with me it’s as simple as that The same cause had produced like results I understood, in the Navy Department, but I was not brought in personal contact with it. The Navy was not important at the beginning it was the army that counted. Nothing but defeat to was to be looked for until the heads of the various departments were changed and this could not be done in a day.
The impatience of the country at the apparent delay in producing an effective for the great task thrown upon the Government was no doubt natural but the wonder to me is that order was soon evolved from chaos which prevailed in every branch of the service.
