The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-10-18

immediate peril from the enemy, whereby
the forces Of the United States, at or near
said Springfield, were many of them sacri.
feed, and the residue compelled to abandon
said post, to the serious detriment of the
Government of the United States, and the
State of Missouri and the people thereof.
Specification (4)-In failing and neglect
ing to take proper measures to reinforce or
succor Major -- Becken, commanding
part of the army of the United States at
| Lexington, in the State of Missouri, from
the 18th day of August, 1861, to the lst
day of September, 1861, the said post, at
Lexington, being all the while in imminent
peril from the enemy, whereby said post
was left to the power of an overwhelming
foe, and was assailed by said foe, and pre-
preserved from destruction only by the he.
roic valor of the officers and men of the
post after they had been grossly abandoned
by the said Major General John C. Ere.
mont.
Specification (5)-In failing and neglect
ing to take proper measures to reinforce and
succor Colonel James A. Mulligan, COM
maDding post of the army of the United
States, at Lexington, in Lafayette county,
IN the State of Missouri, from the 10th
day of September, 1861. to the Goth day
September, 1861, the said post at Lexington
being all the while in imminent peril from
the enemy, whereby the enemy were suf-
fered to assault the said post, and conquer
and take the same, to tie great disgrace OF
the National arms and the detriment of the
service.
Specification (6)-In suffering one Mar
tin Green and other guerilla chiefs OF the
enemy to recruit an army in Northeastern
Missouri of from 5000 to 5000 men, and
to Oyerrun and ravage Northeastern Mis-.
souri, day of August, 1861, to
about the 10th day of September, 1861,
without taking proper measures to suppress
the bands of said Martin Green and other
| guerrillas, whereby a vast amount of the
property of the loyal inhabitants of said
section of the State of Missouri was wasted
ana destroyed ; many of said inhabitants
were driven out of said Northeastern Mis-
souri, by the enemy, and many were COM
PEELED by the enemy to take oath of allie
glance to the pretended tratorous and in.
surrectionary government, called the Con
tolerate States OF America.
Specification (7)--ln suffering and per-
hitting one Stephen A. Hurlbutt, a Briga-
dier General in the Army OF the United
States, and his authority, to be and remain
10 command of the forces of said Govern
ment in Northern Missouri from the 10Th
day of August, 1861, to about the 10th
day of September, 1861, knowing him, the
said Stephen A. Hurlbutt, from the official
report of his superior. officer, Brigadier
General Pope, to be common drunkard,
and unfit all of said time to command, to
the great detriment of the service of the
loyal people of Missouri.
Specification (S)-In neglecting and re.
fusing, on or about the lst day of Septem-
Der, 1861, when post OF the Army of the
United States, at Lexington, in the county
of Lafayette, State of Missouri, was in i'm
minent peril from the enemy, and in need
| of immediate succOr and reinfOrcements, TO
receive or hear one Richard Vaughn, ESQ.,
who had come from said Lexington to his
headquarters, in the city of St. Louis, to lay
before him, tue said Major General j. G..
Fremont, the distressed condition of said
post, and to solicit succor and reinforce
ments for the same, he, the said Major
| General j. g. Fremont, pretending and in-
sistiDg that he was too busy to receive or
hear the message of said Vaughn and al
though he, the said Major General j. c..
| Fremont, was informed that the message of
said Richard Vaughn related to matters of
most urgent necessity, and demanded mme>
diate action, be, the said Major General j.
G. Fremont, would not receive him, the said
Richard Vaughn, nor hear him nor did he
give any assistance to the said post 10 Lex
iDgton, so in imminent peril.
Specification (9)-1n appointing, on or
about the 9Th day of August, 1861, to a
high place of confidence and trust under his
authority, viz: Master of Transportation in
the Western Department, one Doctor Ed
ward II. Castle, person of disreputable
character in keeping the said Castle in
said Office and place of trust after being
fully informed of his character, to the great
detrimert and disgrace of the service.
Specification (l0)-In establishing about
his head quarters in the city of st. Louis, a
barrcade, whereby information absolutely
Indispensable to the public service was re-
PEELED and shut out from his mind he, the
said General Fremont refusing and prevent
ing himself, by such means, from being in
formed of matters of the utmost importance
for hours and even days, to the great detr-
ment of the public service.
Specification (ll)-In not taking proper
measures, while in command OF said Depart
ment of the West, to put down rebellion
within the State of Missouri, drive out and
expel the invaders from said State, and re-
establish the authority of the United States
therein.
Specification (l2)-In this, that Captain
Willard, of the steamboat Sunshine, a
steamboat in the employ of the United
States Government, was sent by Colonel
Mulligan from Lexington on or about the
10th day of September, 1861, to convey
certain officers with dispatches to Colonel
Davis, commanding at Jefferson City, in
the State of Missouri. And when the said
steamboat Sunshine reached Glasgow, in
1.-THE State OF Missouri, and on its way to
Jefferson city, it was fred into and upon by
the armed enemies of the United States
Government, and compelled to land and
transport the forces of the enemy from the