General Scott while in Puebla had asked to be relieved from command of the army because of the want of sympathy and support of the home Government.
It is the duty of a soldier to obey an order, and not to discuss it, and any soldier who before a battle commences reports that he cannot hold a position when a whole army is drawn up should be relieved from command.
So on August 2 I wrote to the Adjutant General to be relieved from command in or serving with this army.
Hood's act was in keeping with the intriguing so ruinous to this army, and I asked to be relieved from serving in it any longer.
John Porter be relieved from command of the corps he now commands in said army, and that Major-General Hooker take command of said corps.
Sumner, at his own request, be relieved from duty in the Army of the Potomac.
But at this point a long-standing irritation and jealousy between Hooker and Halleck became so acute that on the general-in-chief's refusing a comparatively minor request, Hooker asked to be relieved from command.
Whatever way it may please Providence to turn the matter, as it regards myself I believe I shall be relieved from Russia in having made this last attempt.
The idle and burdensome poor are also sent here; and by this means the whole neighborhood is relieved from poor-rates, except for the support of a few individuals who spin, &c.
I think it a favor indeed, he says, to be relieved from a doubting mind as to whether I should go or stay; for I can truly say that, let the result prove what it may.
If this is the case, O that I may be relieved from them.
He could not be relieved from duty in the field where all his battles had been victories: the design would have been too transparent.
There were one thousand articles still on the list, five hundred of which were free of duty: he proposed that many other articles should be relieved from duty.
When this shall be done our population will be relieved from a considerable portion of its present burthens, and will find not only new motives to patriotic affection, but additional means for the display of individual enterprise.
By the proposed law, employers would gain a desirable certainty of obligation and get rid of litigation to determine it, while the workman and his family would be relieved from a crushing load.
In a cordial answer (February 16th), Halleck said he expected Grant to receive the promotion, and should most cordially welcome him to the chief command, glad himself to be relieved from so thankless and disagreeable a position.
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