This assurance was not fulfilled. Indeed, Pope wrote several letters on the subject, as will appear. Queer letters were they, to be written by a major-general commanding a department, to his superior, the general-in-chief, to whom he administers the medicine _à la cheval de trait_. To summarize: Pope makes these charges against Halleck. (1) That the plan of campaign was Halleck’s.[15] (2) That Pope was but an instrument in the hands of the general-in-chief.[16] (3) That Pope faithfully executed Halleck’s plans.[17] (4) That the latter fully approved every act of the former, thereby making himself responsible, so far as Pope was concerned, for the final result.[18] Here a pause. These charges are fully substantiated by letters and telegrams passing between Halleck and Pope, which appear in parts II and III, of Vol. XII, of the Official Records. Pope was regularly advising Halleck of his movements, and Halleck was as regularly approving the same. And as late as August 26, 11:45 A. M., Halleck wired Pope: “Not the slightest dissatisfaction has been felt in regard to your operations on the Rappahannock,” etc. Returning to the charges: (5) That Pope had made the charges against Generals McClellan, Porter and Griffin “at Halleck’s own urgent request.”[19] Halleck was the real instigator. (6) That Halleck had not assigned him [Pope] to command of the western department, which, as Pope says, “would at once have freed me [Pope] from the odium and abuse which have so shamefully and unjustly been heaped upon me by the papers and people,” etc.[20] (7) That he found himself banished to the frontier.[21] (8) That his character and reputation as a soldier had been deeply and irretrievably injured.[22] (9) That the Government refused to allow him to publish the facts[23] and (10) That General-in-Chief Halleck declined to acknowledge his services publicly. All through the letters are insinuations and charges against McClellan, Porter and Griffin. And he makes categorical demand in these words: “I said, and say now, that one of three things I was entitled to; any one of them would have satisfied me. The dictates of the commonest justice gave me the right to expect one of them at least: 1st. That the court of inquiry be at once held and the blame be fixed where it belongs. It is now too late for that, as the delay has already made the worst impression against me that is possible. 2d. That the Government should acknowledge publicly, as it had done privately, my services in Virginia, or 3d. That in case neither of these things could be done, then that the Government bestow upon me some mark of public confidence, as its opinion of my ability warranted. None of these things have been done,” etc.