Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-11-27
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1861


present, for certain reasons The Major General
feels hurt at Gen. Curtiss for sending the dis
patches Of such magnitude by civilian. The
General and myself supposed, from your dress
and appearance. that you had important inform
alton from the enemy" Capt. Mckenny replied
"No. sir, ! am officer of the United States Ar
my" and then exhibited Gen. Cur.iss's pass, in
which was given the bearers rank and title.
The Captain then remarked 10 Col Eaton that
he had important dispatches for Gen. Hunter
and must have transportation and pass through
the lines.
Col. Eaton replied:
IL can not pass any one through the lines, nor
viii Gen. Fremont issue pass TO any person.
The General is greatly surprised that you effected
passage through the pickets when he had given
strict and positive orders not to pass any one ex-
cept on his special order. | may be able to send
a man 10 pass you out"
Capt McKenny-"That will do
1t now being evening, Col Eaton introduced
Capt. McKenny to Col. Wood, who to fur
nish transportation. Col Wood went to see Col.
Richardson, and did not return until about niue
O'Clock, when Capt. McKenny inquired about the
transportation. In clustering and excited man
ner Col. Wood replied al did not understand
that you wanted it tonight and being assured
by the Captain that he wanted it Immediately,
Col. Eaton, who had been sent for, answered:
transportation, as Gen Fremont has turned over
his command to Gen. Hunter, as you will see by
this circular" which the Colonel produced. Col.
Eaton added that he had no information where
Hunter was. but supposed he was on the Buffalo
road, and that copy of Gen. Fremont's circular
had already been sent to Gen. Hunter, which copy
Gen. Hunter never received. After the first APP
peal to pass through the lines Col. Eaton saw
Gen. Fremont and returned with an answer that
ha(
ond appeal the Captain found equally fruitess,
and concluded to try another method. He called
upon Col. Richardson and made known his busi-
ness, and the efforts being made 10 prevent him
from going through the lines. Col. X. furnished
the Captain two horses and guide, and the two
started at III o'clock toward Buffalo. The first
guard was passed by means Of the countersign,
which the Captain mad overheard Col. Eaton give
to officer. Coming up TO the second guard,
the Captain was oyerhaued by the Corporal OF
the Guard, who demanded TO see the pass. Capt.
Mex. alighted from his horse, and, fiourishing
the pass of Gen. Curtiss in front of blazing fire,
remarked that he was in great haste to intercept
Gen. Hanter with important dispatches. The
Corporal passed the Captain through the lines by
sending sentinel along to the outer pickles.
Capt. Mckenny rode all night, and arriving at
Buffalo, could learn nothing of Gen. Hunter, and
leaving word with Major Wright that he had i'm
on toward Bolivar. When about ten miles on the
road he was overtaken by the Major, who
nOunced Gen. Hunters arrival at Buffalo. Capt.
Mex. returned and delivered his dispatches about
II M. After dinner Gen. H., in an ambulance.
proceeded TO Springfield, arriving there about
O'Clock at night. Capt. Mex. returned the fol-
lowing morning, when he found all the officers
making their calls on the new Commander, and
congratulating him upon his promotion. The
n
ing among the troops, but not the slightest insur
bordination, no laying on arms through the night,
no throwing down of arms on the evening previ-
Gus or morning after, and not a single officer
threatened to resign. Gen. Hunter is esteemed
aud beloved by the entire army, and the expres-
sion is universal that the troops are entirely sat
isied with any change the Government may deem
best for the service. Up to Monday night, when
the Captain left, this good feeling and satisactor
harmony prevailed.
Gen Hunter, hearing that the advance guard
of the enemy were on Wilson's Creek, sent out
two regiments of infantry and one of cavalry who
secured the country for twenty FIVE miles and dis
covered no signs of the enemy, nor had Prices
army been in that vicinity at all. The base fab
rications that have emanated from the "B0hemi-
an brigade particularly the correspondence OF
the st. Louis papers, has heen denounced in un-
measured terms by Gen. Hunter, with every prob.
ability of an arrest of several of these gentry who
have been riding the State, fed and provided
for in every respect by Uncle Sam, upon the
special order Of Gen. Fremont This game has
now "played out" and the forwarding of any cor.
respondence whatever, without the Generals ap
proyal, has been interdicted A more complete
somersault was never known than the correspon
dence sent over the country on the day of Ere
mont's removal and departure from camp, and
that which appeared from the same pens the day
after Gen. Hunter took command.
The first mistake General Fremont made was
the refusal to reinforce General Lyon at Spring.
field, when Lyon occupied the building in which
General Fremont received his order of superse
dure. Truly singular instance of retributivt
justice.
For several days report has been circulated
here that when near Warsaw, General Fremont
received dispatch from General Mcclellan au
thorizing the General to resume his command
This report has been circulated by members oi
the staff The tohoLe Is a fabrication, as know
from official sources. On the contrary, General
Mcclellan 'telegraphed General Curtiss to arrest
Col Phinney for leaving Springfield with $500,
000 and all others who were in any way connect
ed with that transaction. As General Fremont
ordered Colonel Phinney to remove that money
after he was relieved of his command, bis arres
was included in the dispatch, but subsequently
withdrawn. On yesterday telegram came from
General Mcclellan to General Curtiss TO arres
Frans Krappner, (the individual who figures SC
conspcuously as superintendent of the tortihca
tions) and all others who interfere in the slightest
degree with the execution of instructions ISSUED
by him as commanding general. General Cur
tiss is instructed also to take into custody the
Wheaton corps, and to preserve at all hazards
the good order and supremacy of military au
thority. All these parties thus arrested "to be
retained in custody until the arrival of Major
General Halleck, who is assigned to the com
mand of the Department of the West" This an
nouncement is official from General Mcclellan
and does not Indicate that Fremont's remova
either temporary or that he was ever offeree
to be reinstated. General Halleck will arrive
here within week, when new and efficien
state of affairs will be inaugurated.