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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. Quraters Superintendent a direct [underline] order, the Qr. Master would think it an interference & want of courtesy, & yet habitually gives direct orders Superintendent - I am Command. Yet Genl Meyers leave from the post at his I am expecting to see that my provision, fuel, forage reference to any one of them by the information that other I can it is true, direct the me, & countenance such as this is trouble & collision at

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but he has already taken Staff of the Quarter Master through Genl. Myers. That he connot