One of them, Floyd, the Secretary of War, scattered the army so that much of it could be captured when hostilities should commence, and distributed the cannon and small arms from Northern arsenals throughout the South so as to be on hand when treason wanted them.
Grant accuses Secretary of War Floyd of sabotaging the Union's military readiness before the Civil War.
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