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independence (to which end they are working all the time) & unless Rank in the Line interferes, post commanders may as well yield their Command. Were I to give the Hd. Quarters Superintendent a direct [underline] order, the Qr. Master would think it an interference & want of courtesy, & yet your Chf. Qr. Mr. habitually gives direct orders to the Qr. Mr. here, who is my Superintendent - I am responsible for the efficiency of my Command. Yet Genl Meyers assumes the right to order every leave from the post at his discretion, & without my knowledge. I am expected to see that my Comr. is properly supplied with provision, fuel, forage &c, &c, yet if I give an order in reference to any one of them, I may be (& am) much [illegible] by the information that other orders leave here rec'd from Hd. Qrs. I can it is true, direct the Qr. Mr. to communicate all orders to me, & countermand such as I think wrong or injurious. this is trouble & collision at once.

   I was in hope that the arrival of Col Camp would change this but he has already taken occasion to tell me that he is one the Staff of the Quarter Master General, & responsible to him alone through Genl. Myers.