M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-10-17


was written, bis limits to be the post
Of Jefferson Barracks.
CHANCES AND ePEcIFIoAIoNs AGAINST
FREMoNr.
Col. Blair tlerenpon prepared char.
ges and specifications against Gen.
Fremont and forwarded them to
Washington. Under the first charge
of Neglect OF duty and un.oficer
like conduct" are twelve specifications,
which, divested Of legal technfcali.
ties, are as follows ---~-.~
1st. In failing frem the Sd day 0t
July to repair 20 bis headquarters az
St. Louis, and enter upon his duties
as Iniltary chief, to the serious injury
Of the public service.
9. Failing to inform himself Of
the wants and necessities of Lis De-
partment from the 81 to the 26th day
Of July.
8. Failing to take proper meas
ures to reinfor 20 and suocor General
Lyon from the Sd OF July to the 10th
of August, whereby the forces of the
United States, at or near said Spring
field, were many ol them sacrificed,
and the residue compelled to abandon
saiG post, to the serious detriment of
the (ioyernmeDt Of the United States
and the State of Missouri, and the
people thereof.
4. Failing and neglecting to re.
iniorce Maj. Becken at Lexington
from the 18th Of August to the 1st OF
September, whereby said post was
left to the power Of an overwhelming
foe, aud was assailed by said foe, and
preserved from destruction only by
the heroic valor Of the officers and
mon of the post after they had been
so grossly abandoned by the said
Ma ior General John O. Fremont.
S. Failing to reinforce Col. Mul-
ligan OF Lexington from the 1eth to
the Goth OF September, whereby the
enemy was suffered to assault the said
post, and conquer aud take the same,
to the great disgrace Of the National
arms ard the detriment OF the service
6. In suffering Martin Green and
other guerilla chiefs to recruit iron
9, 900 to 5000 men in North Eastern
Missouri, and to overrun and ravagt
it, without taking proper measures t
suppress them, whereby vast am
cunt OF property of loyal citizens was
wasted and destroyed, and the inhab
itants driven out or compelled to take
the oath Of allegiance to the Confed
eracy.
Z. III permitting Brig. Gen. S. A
Hurlbutt to remain in command O
forces in Northern Missouri, from the
10th of August to the 10th of Sep
tember, knowing him, from the offic-
ial report oil Gen. Pope, 'to be com,
mon drunkard, and unfit all of said
time to be in command" ~ y r
S. In refusing, on or aboutthe LIST
of September, when the army at Lex
iDgton was in imminent peril, to re.
ceive or hear one Richard Vaughn,
Esq, who had come from Lexington
to lay before him the distressed con-
ditien Of said post, and to solicit sue
cor and reinforcements for the same,
he (FremonD pretending and insist,
ing that he was too busy TO receive or
hear the message; and although he
was informed tbatthe message related
to matters OF most urgent necessity,
and demanded immediate action, he
would not receive Richard Vaughn,
nor hear him; nor did lie give any as.
sistance to the post in Lexington, so
in imminent peril.
8. ln appointing DR.. Ed. II. Cas-.
tie Master Of Transportation in the
Western Department and keeping him
in it, after being fully informed OF his
disreputable character.
10. In establishing o barricade
about bis headquarters in St. Louis,
whereby information absolutely indis
peusable to the public service was re-
PEELED and slut out from lis mind
he (Fremont) refusing and preventing
himself, by such means, from being
informed Of matters Of the utmps
Importance for hours and even days.
II: In not taking proper measures
to put down rebellion in the State o
Missouri.
12. That Capt. Willard of the
steamboat Sunshine, was sent by Col
Mulligan from Lexington, on Or abou
the 10th September, with dispatches
to Col. Davis, commanding at j effer
son City, and when at Glasgow wa
fred upon by armed enemies, an(
compelled to land and transport th,
forces Of the enemy from the north t,
the south side Of the Missouri !; tba
Willard, obtaining tho dispatches
from Mulligan to Davis, made his es
cape and came without delay 10 St
Louis, aud repairing to headquarters
addressed note TO Fremont, reciting
tine above facts, and stating that h'
had the dispatches, but was refused {