The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-14
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TO THE EDITOR or THE UNION.
GENERAL. BUTLER-AGAlN.


GENERAL BUTLER-AGAIN.
The continued attacks on General Butler from
certain quarter, have induced to request the IN
seron in your paper Of the following articles from
the Dayton Empire" and SOHO Statesman" The
public will judge for themselves Of what credit Is
due to the ASSISTANTS Of our absent soldiers after
reading the evidence which is daily coming out.
am also authorized to say, that one of General
Tayors staff, ,ohO was ,0h him during the rohois Of
the attack alluded 10, declares that he did not hear,
nor heard Of any words between General Taylor
and Butler and that had any passed, he must haze
heard them. He was also astonshed when he ar
rived in the United States, ut seeing the various
newspaper animadyersions on General Buffers con-
Duct and the want of courage OF the Ohio and Ken
lucky troops. Nothing Of that sort was spoken OF
in camp. .h' OPT '.
would recommend the editor of neighboring
city, who has made his columns the vehicle of these
attacks, TO read an editorial In the "Cincnnau Adj
vertiser" of last week, headed General Butler,
and then TO mediate upon the consequences OF dis
regarding the old saw, "they who live in glass
houses, should not throw stones" presume we
will have no more attacks on western volunteers,
from that quarter, as the work of defending his
own favorites will give him full employment for
some time to come. | regret that his injustice to
others, should cause injury TO the feelings or char
acters Of those whom he has so unwisely con-
trasted with his intended victims Public opinion
will soon pass judgment in the premises.
by-tnc-OY, Wncn We 10 lfOHl ~oiu
Roughr His dispatches appear not to be ready"
X.
I'VE stated in last evenings "Unionn the reasons
Of this delay, as assigned by General Taylor him
self in his letter of the 9Th OF october,-UsioN.l
.... From the Dayton Empire.
FRom rnE ARMY.-We have been permitted to
copy the following letter, from a volunteer now in
Monterey to friend In this city r. ....
...v .. MONTEREY, Mexico, Oct l, 1916.
DEAR FRIEND: l have not written to you before,
though promised you would when left Dayton.
In fact private has not much chance 10 write let
ters. We don't get much pay, and everything is so
high and we are kept so busy, that we hardly have
time 10 think Of our friends except when their faces
plain as day, fash across US, when the bullets come
whstling by
You have heard all about the battle from some OF
our officers; and am not able to give you descrip
ton of il, only that We had desperate time Of II.
Our boys stood up TO the work like soldiers should
do, and though we did not have chance TO do much,
yet we were in the thickest Of the fight, and were
on hand.
Gen Butler is boss; he cares more for bull
lets than for 80 many hal-stones. III we had ad-
vanced once more between the fires of the enemy,
would have taken the battery were afler easy.
Old Butler was for doing this, and though he was
wounded still took the lead, with handkerchief
tied around his wound.
You have heard all about the capitalization. think
It was right, though many don't IL we had refused
to do IT, and failed take the Of the FORTS which
were the strongest, would have been in a bad
box; for were scarce of provisions, and, if rou-
ed, would have had bloody time. II was aso alb
solutey necessary that we possess Monterey in or
der 10 go ahead with the war. These things all
considered the council Of thought il best to
pituate they did. We have lots of ammunition
and guns and all that sort of thing Small favors
thankfully received you know. The "yellow skins"
thaH fbapt
so few in number-not half so many as they.
You have been written to expect Of the death
of our boys. Poor fellows, | can't say anything
about them, nor could you if you had it all as
did.
We have had some hard times since left you,
and though | don't like TO speak dlsrespectful Of
officers, yet they complain than the men
and swear at the administration because they are
not furnished with preserves, pound cake, ice cream
juleps, &c. We have great many babies here
full grown, who expect to live here they did at
home; but we are getting pretty we'll rid of them,
and am glad of it,
We have plenty ofgood substantial food, and there
is no danger of starvation. Old Rough and Ready
goes it as we do and no man should complain when
he lives as he does He is tall one; so is Worth,
so is Butler wish you could Worth on his
horse must not forget to say old ''Sorre-top"s is
one of them too. He is cool and fearless as old
Butler. And our immediate officers, Mitchell,
Weller, and Giddlngs, were on hand.
Lieut.. Col. Weller took command Of us after
Mitchell was wounded, and we could all hear his
voice distinctly calling upon the Ohio boys to do
their duty and sustain the honor Of Ohio. II was
encouraging to hear his voice. Once | saw him
raised up in his stirrups and halloo out for three
cheers, and gave his cap three swings around his
head.
DIR. Egry is going home. He is considered the
best surgeon in the army, and we are all sorry to
artwith him. Respectfully, yours.
The LIBEL NAnED.-A writer in the Washington
Union, in some remarks upon the report about Gen.
Butler, says: gallant regular officer, who had just
returned from Monterey, in the capture of which
he bore his part, in relation to the charges against
Gen. Butler, says, explicitly "tha if there was any
complaint against General Butler, on any account
in the army, he had heard it; and especially
that he had heard of no angry words difficulty of
any kind between Generals Taylor and Butler nor
did he believe that there had been any. The officers
of the regular army had the greatest respect for
Gen. Butler, well as for Gen. Taylor, and had all
been to visit the former after he had received his
wound" ..
This sustains what officers returned to this city
declared on their arrival. No such libel was known
in camp-the Baltimore Sun had the news exclu-
sively-Ohio Statesman. 49,. ... ...
General Hamer.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.