Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-08-22
Behind the scenes.

FrTz HENRY WARREN, leading Republican q
Iowa, has GENE out in a card acknowledging the
authorship of the celebrated Washington letters OF
the New York Tribune which created 80 much sen
satiOn few weeks ago, and which were attributed
to the pen Of GREELEY himself The card was re-
fused insertion in the Tribune since it has changed
its policy. In this letter Mr.. WARREN makes impor-
tant disclosures. Re says:
81 was not long here before saw that under this
appearance of doing nothing was being done. There
was no order and no system. Troops came in and
marched in review before the President, and went
supperless to bed. They WeFe slowed away IN pub
lie buildings and private halls, with no regard to
health or the modified comfort Of soldiers life.
They neither instructed in the art Of war nor
made to understand the discipline Of the camp.
Week after week NO provisions were made for any
transportation or for the material Of war. Arms
were pressingly wanted, but arms were bought
nor, so far can learn, were efforts then made to
buy them. Troops were offered in uneOunted thou
sands and refused. Next to getting an Office, pro-
curing the acceptance Of regimen was the high
est effort Of strategete skill and diplomatic capacity.
81 have spent more hours in walking 70 and from
the War Department, and waiting there to urge the
requisition Of regiments than have in writing let
ters, aAd days and weeks l spent my strength for
naught / asked, over and over again, why tenn
porary hospitals were not erected for the care Of
the wounded, as we must have them, but without
reply. Even then, Bne lnurLDdrys 50 CA4lGu, was
filed with the sick; and some Of those who would
have been now living, if left 70 the sunshine and
dew are in their graves from the walled pest house.
Not two boards have been nailed together, unless
since this battle to shelter these unfortunates
Some of the saddest rectals Of these saddest Of
days have been those Of MANNED men who had to
bide the peltings Of the piuless storm Of Monday,
uRtented and uncovered. pray God to spare me,
In His mercy any repititien Of the humiliation and
shame, and the grief and Indignation, of the last
days.
Il cannot 20 into the details of the last two
months. But what shall I say Of sending twenty
five thousand men into the massacre Of Bulls Run.
Whose madness was this? Whose conscience does
this blood inearnadine! No one knew the force or
the position There was no reconnaissance. Men
marched into bloody graves as they walk
ed into the doors Of the homestead.
Batteries blazed out at their feet Of
which none but the enemy had the slightest knOwl
edge Cannon VOlleyed and Numbered from under
the foliage Of the forest, into which soldiers were
ruthlessy marched, where no messenger should
have been sent except shot and she'll Within thirty
miles of Washington the officer and private bFaced
up nature for close encounter with ship bread and
water. One-balf Of the men engaged had nothing
10 eat after supper of the night previous Many Of
them marched st double quick for ten miles, and
we're under fire for hour after hour, so exhausted
By hunger that they could hardly stand, and 80
Darched with THIRST that their tongues could hardly
be kept in their mouths. Nay, individuals whose
NOrQ cOnDOL DC QuesLLOutus Sd" many ioAL4lB IAAS
logs. Artillery horses, too, were so weak from
he want Of forage, that they would not be beaten
nto a troE Do ysu wish more Of this damning
to imbecility. If you DO, you can have
L
.sNoW. I am exoected 10 know all this and say
lothing. must be stopped for continuing to tell
he truth because the World abuses and grass fed
lergyman writes & remonstrance. Where u the
dItor of the World, and what is he doing. The
errestial globe is wide enough for him and me- and
e can rail until his tongue is swollen as the sol
iers' whom the men that he praises sent into the
winding sheet and the burial rites Of q brute