Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1837-02-07

tire. d,,.d the 1Ith of
40 ~ ,ba Sscrpio,y of War, he says; " naSe ~
MEANS nf communicating directly win ueneia, s w
This circumstance inclines me 70 ST. CnosrsI Scort. when
though there Is ss some 10 be- ready by The 18th.
L W. TWh " a., had be no direct means OF communicating
VIZ u" n,df,n runner. My letters to hin. OF Inc lo",
" ." e. were sent by single Indians, and ne nau
tums nod of friendly Indian warriors with hip'
cstfv caused Captain Page, who was, at 1.-The time, cna'ssu
with the Indian Department., and the t;ahshn'ss'"' ~
Indian runners, Of my letters to General 'eSrp' "ue
summoned here but The Judge Advocate informs Ic
that the captain is detained at the South ny lI'sSS.m
General Jcsup. however, has nowhere remarked III !
non. reception of any one OF my letters r,,
NV secund letter 10 him was dated the loah, anuusu
in the third IlGlh of june By mistake. as II oaeu '"t
18th. In this letter [of the lolA] ! said;
awe shall be much delayed il taking The te!d, on 'H'S
side, BY the non-arripsl Of our most essential suPp'es-
rifles, muskcts, muske; accoutreinrnts, ummunit.on' &C
| had expected these, with subsistence stores, TO oeg'h
to arrive here from the Ochmulgee by the Ih insl;; o"'
here is a letter from tie agent VII beatd. daEu At 'L Iwa
kinsyiIle, the 9Th, in which he reports that nothing mao
reached that Mace. He Immediately despatched " u"hl
to Darirn to make enquiries, 10 hasten, &c we nave
now ON the Chattahoochre about 5000 Genrgans, most
of them remarkably fac men. or the whole NUMBER,
however, net q third have Sufficient arms, and n sun
smaller number good accoutrements. II Will, therefore,
be impossible to arm and cqnip The remaining ~two'th'rds
without the nuskels, The Halls rifles, aud inusket ac'
cnu:remenls expected by the Ochmulgee. From Tue
foregoing. it will be seen that it is impossible for the
GeoruiuHs 10 commence operations from the neighbor'
hood OF lrwinlon, say in eight or ten days, nor even
then, unless the arms md Announcements shall nave Or
rived. [ have mol had u line from Gov. Clay, &c. we
have more than doubled The force placed in the lower
cnuntics OF Georgia 10 prevent the Creeks from escHP'
ing to the Seninn'es.
In INV third letter to Gen, JrsuP, dated June l6, after
telling him las in my sccnud lel.cr-iu order that bis
own movements might not be precipitated) "t the arms,
i &c. having been heard from, and that they mlght ne
expected in a few days, say: AT present. oil tte @I"o
..,.. MI: Can ,pior has IL, ha ra,Dn fOn lhp other
side OF TIC Iive7.) only about 400 are armed, land these
but intli!arrnlly;l all tue other armed men have been
detached below, 10 guard the river, and which, as yet,
from the want of armed men is uut very lmiperltclIy
guarded" then alIude 10 The mysteries and omissions
Of his letter OF the 9th. After anlmadveTt;'g on sever
al, my letter proceeds:
u You urller tell me tina: if a movement be deter
mined on, ! Will send you information of il by a runner.
A movement 10 be determined on! BY whom: Inc
Alabama commanders. CT those in conjunction win your
self: EilEe. you were placed in command, or you lave
not been. In tie frs. case yuu would certainly defer
mine on no scheme .! efinsire operations without my
previous concurrence and readiness TO co-opera''; yet,
without receiving any runner !rnm you, or cnuinlunica'
lion Of any kind, since the 9Th instant, a passenger III
the stage by the upper route, just arrived here, reports
that you, at the head CT about 3,GG0 Aiatalialls, anu
| eco friendly Indians, was abou, 10 march upon Ne .,
mi.cos bund, aud 10 Commence operations on a gIand
scale! have no doubt there is j gross mistake III THIS
report. Yea may, perhaps, have h"en about TO make
some dJcHsirc movement, or operation, to clear q iron
tier settlement of il portion of The enemy; but will not
believe tiul you nave ueclafeu your iHue PehuehCs VI NY
authority
The Court will be pleased to remark that was, until
very recently, ign"runt Of The fact that General Je=up,
t:;ough silent towards NE, had been qnite cnmmnnIca.
tive, against ali regulations and decent usagcs Ot the Ar
my. u The. Secretary Of War.
My:!etttr To him, Of the 10Th, continues: SIT is Ger
tain that Brigadier. Grneral aloure, of Ala, has com
menced n Course of offensive operations, from lrwintoD
up the country. From this fac, alone, have rather in
lcrred that you have not even yet been invested w!lh
The command OF the Alubamiais, or you certainly would
have stamped bis premature and isolated movement -
These doubts aud cotIrcluves IN the absence ut all di-
rect intelligence from y"u, are sufficiently llarrassIng.
81 mean 10 be expiIcit and precise on my part. desire
you instantly to stop all offensive movements, Gi you
are in comnand9 on the part of the A~laGamians, until
the Georgiuns are ready 10 act; say on the 2lst instant,
when the greater number Of them will be armed and
ready for the field. By that tine, TOO, there will be on
the frontier The greHler part of The regulars aud marines
ordered from The North. On that day, it the movements
Of General Moore shall not render a modification Of my
plan necessary, shall begin 10 assemble the troops on
this side Of the nation, somewhere in the neighboThood
of lrwlnton, and operate up the country. II IS my De.
sire that you meet me about that time and place, and
that you bring with you any dsposable inrce you CON-
renienlly Gun, or that yqH hold the whole Of The Abba
mians in defensive positions on the frontier settlements
till shall bring The war into their neightorhood' when
you can come into the general line OF operations with
me-
June I7h,. i addressed q fourth letter to General Je.
sup, of whit;I the following are extracts:
sSir: have this moment received yuur two letters Of
the 18th astd l7tl instant.
81 am infinitely aslonlshed and distressed TO hear oil
your approach, and IN u starving condition, TO For
Mitchell. You knew that your forces were not wanted
there; you knew that no supplies would reach lrwinton
from New Orleans euri'er than the 2lst instant: if ST
soon; and you knew by ny leller Of the 10Th INST. that
nothing had arrived as high us llawkInsvllle upon The
Ochmulgee, and, consequently, nothing could We reach
ed this place by The present date, ir";n that river. }
ought, also, to add, that you knew when you lett here:
that the troops, daily increasing, were living from hand
to mouth Oh Tie p:tcari"us supplies OF the ne'ghb"riIood
Under these circumstances, lm 'glre NY aslunIsiinent 10
learn thai, i,slea al u,al ching the di=pvsable force OF Ala
bama upon lrwinlua, with Subsistence for at least III "rt
days in advance, y"u lave come through the heart oi The
lntian country, seeking private adventures, which Il sue.
cessiul, could hardly haze advanced The " ar, an! against
my known plan Of operations, to Fort Mitchell, 40 tnnr;
out Of p"slt,"n! 1t lie precisely General Guinness move.
ment upon For! King, where there was no subsistence,
and there is none, as you ought 10 have known, al torl
Mitchell. My grief and distress ue at their utmost
height. This tt'cngr movement you have made with
out giving me the slightest notice. You gave not The
slightest notice. You hive not informed me-yuu do :
not even noto tell NE, lla. you are in the command nj
the Alabamiens; and your last letter states that it was
doubtful whether you ever would he invested with tha'
command. All this is Infinitely stlange, and was The
last thing in the world that was 10 he expected from you. :
The letter -%corciated with these wuIds; ~'lhcugh H.
gIief, still reina:ns yours with greut regard" :
General Jesup has given this letter, with notes Of his
own upon II, as part Of his communication to MIR. Blair,
printed in Tie Gi0te, September 2G, 1856. In one oil
those notes he says, 10 dIscredlt my descI ibing hin IL
be approaching Fort Mitchell lin a starving condition" |
that, at the time, 'ks had subsistence for the truops un.
der his command lueEc 22d of June"
Now, in his liter vi the 18th. written from Tie inle.
rior, ofthe enemy S cuaniry, he had said TO me: 81 fine
1t impossible to obtain either corn or subsistence here.
The hostile Indians have destroyed all that they have
not taken away" Same letter: June 18th. am now !
at the Big Spring, within "A miles Of Fort Mitchell !
Il have 10 request ttat provisions aud corn be srTt t.
Fort Mitchell. i have only 5 days ratiops, and not a +;
grain Of com" 81 shall. probably, be compelled TO fall :
back on Fort Mitchell, o! 10 a position near TO it. ]
hope TO receive orders from you al that place, 10 which. p,
if do not go ,nysrll, / ehall gerd wagons for subsist
ence." And in his note to me Of The l7th, rec, wed
with tue letter of the l%5,h-I6!h, he says: al find that VIC 4,