The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1852-09-11

SCOTT SELECTED TO INSTRUCT AND DISCI
PINE GEN. BRowN's ARMY FOR
THE NEXT CAMPAIGN. H
Thus far, those larger operations Q
the war which hadtbeen entrusted t,
the more vetefan Generals were, ex
cept Harrison's overthrow of Proctor
failures. 1t had become clear tha
either the contest must be given up
or another kind of commanders mus
be found. 1t was not that these men
We're too old, but shat they were pool
soldiers. They had never known
enough to be made generals of, and
now they were too old to learn. 1t il
neither because man is old or because
he Is young that you can make him
safely leader of armies: Nature must
have created him for it, and Art have
perfected the work Nature made a
jackson and Taylor but she alone
could never have made master of wal
like Scott.
All the conduct of this young officer
made the Government perceive that in
him they had a man for victories
They had advanced him rapidly; and
the more advanced, the more had he
shown himself fit for command. In
deed, 1t has been remarkable in him
that, no matter what they have set
him about, war or peace, fighting or
negotiating. he has always done it
better than any body else.
He was now, in the winter of 1894,
called by the President TO Albany,
there to. prepare all the supplies for'the
next campaign, and, under instructions
from him, to consult on and settle with
Gov. Tompkins certain important ar
Engagements, political and military,
which have not yet been divuIged.-
That business done, he was, on The 9th
March, 1914, promoted to the rank of
Brigadier General. and sent to the
Niagara frontier, there 10 form at
Buffalo, by discipline and instruction.
as fast as they arrived, new army,
meant to act there in the next cam
paign, under Major Gen. Brown. That
officer withdrew for three months to
Sacketfs Harbor, in order to leave this |
important operation entirely to Scott
He went about it.aecurdingly with all
his might. We had heretofore used |
the old English or rather Prussian sys-
tenn of tactics; but with poor drill of
even that he at once adopted the far
more perfect modern French one-that
which we now emrhy-and placing
the whole army i'll Camp of Instrnc-
tion, huge practical military school,
kept them necessarily, for the next
thee months, men and officers, at
learning the whole business Of fighting.
First he taught the officers, and then
they taught the men. Both were thor
oughly trained to all the minor evoIu-
tions. This effected, he went on to the
higher movements, not of mere squads
and Companies, battalions and regi-1
ments, .brlgades and divisions, but made
them skilful in the maneuYre of whole
armies; and, in a word, accustomedl
them TO do all the duties Of the.eamp,
the march, and the battlefield He
did his work thoroughly. and stopped
not until he kneEsthat we had now one
army fit to cope with the best troops of
Britain. He had received them from
Sen. Brown raw recruits; he gave
hem back 10 himzyeferans in disci-
1line; he had taken them in hand a /
mere crowd, Ia mob with uniforms on J !
hey left him an inviueible host filled J
With martial skill and Confidence, and /
Don to sweep before them5 with the i
,ayonet THAT manifest fest ofthe sold a
erl Wellington'sf old fre.eaters of the i
spanish peninsula, that had never be- /
ore given back. g
HE NIAGARA GRossEp- ERIE TAKEN
-BATTEE6F CHIPPEWA :
All was. now ready for action. At S
he end of June Gen. Brown returned '
D Buffalo, and on the Sd of July Scott a
nd Ripley were semi acsoss the a
liagafa with their. brigade to take t.
'ort Erie. It soon surrendered its 170Fd
len, while the rest of our army passed $
yer, and now preparations were at Il
nee made to attack without delay the v
ritish army, Whichy2, 100 strong, lay, c
nder Gen.. Rial, on the Chippewa e
Glow. Early oFthe 4ttf Scott moved s
He was soon met e
y the Marquis of Tweeddale, who for Iii
xteen miles kept up running fight o
18th him, bnt could make no stand lte
y nightfaH be was driven across the b
hippewa, aad at its bridge reloined W
iali; while Scott took up his quarters o,
y the night on Streets creek, two m
lies above. The space between is al
Ie plain Of Chippewa, midway on sa
hieh occurred the next days bloody az
lttle East of the plain runs the 70
isgara;; west of it stretched a wood, pl
lIdefiag irFegularly the battle ground. "
rIfhe 9Th the chief part of the day / 70
d been consumed in skirmishes be- ii,
ssen tOur light troops and Indians with Bl
seof 1helenemy. swhen Gen. RIAL ar
ose, about four Ia the afternoon. to Sc
ticipate an attack on him in his lines ad
passing the hfidgesof the Chippewa in
d adpaBeihg to offer battle 10. the fh
ddle of ehs plains Nothing could be |. utI
fer than The grennd and though he er,
Innmb bsrsd rs by some geo men, he Ith,
lily supposed Is iesbaye,at least that on
Eantags oSsf him, but that he was m,
rsthan 6enpeusafsd by the superb w
Ep ofshis tfo1ys W1o were mainly I.fh.