On April 7, 1863, I received orders from General Rosecrans to proceed with the Provisional Brigade ... to Nashville, and to fit out as speedily as possible for an expedition to the interior of Alabama and Georgia, for the purpose of destroying the railroads and other rebel property in that country.

Moreover, if Bonaparte had wished to acquire territory in Australia, he was not so foolish a person as to fit out an expedition estimated to cost over half a million francs, and which actually cost a far larger sum, when he could have obtained what he wanted simply by asking.

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