The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-11-27
sIGEL AND PORTER,s CORPS.

YIN NV""Sef''o dupeTttSeT, ledulnS
Republican paper, writes from Warrenton
on the 10th an account OF the walton out.
RACES committed by the troops of Gen. ST.
gels corps in the march forward. He
says:
The court-martial how setting brings
out the facts OF the atrocious conduct OF
the staff and others in the burning Of
Haymarket, in such manner that to emit
Slgel town will here after be a word OF
terror to all The work was done under
the direction of Lieutenant and a C. Cpunt,
both connected with the staff. They claim
to have had authority, which however
does not appear. The former with an or
derly and some soldiers, went into a shed
and split and prepared the kindling for
burning the hou 'es, All pro;estat:ons on
the part of the women and children, for
such only, with few old men. were
left in the village, were unheeded. The
fires were set in various places amid terror
and shrieko. One poor woman, whose
child was very Ill, begged that the house
might be saved. Her plea if uninteligible
in wcrds-for German was the only Ian
guage in which the soldiers spokc-must
have been understood in actions, for she
held the poor sufferer up before them; bu,
1t was in vain, and the next morning the
body OF the dead baby laid by the side CT
the smoking ruins OF the house. One old
man, who plead earnestly that one house
at least m ght be spared TO shelter the
houseless inhabitants from the cold was,
struck three times by Count with his
sword anu badly wounded He has how
ever, bee: able to attend and give his les.
umony before the court.
l understand that every house, barn,
shed and every description of building
was utterly destroyed, and that during the
pitless weather of the last four days the
poor inhabitants have been endeavoring
to keep themselves warm under the shell
ter hut' made from the boughs of trees y
The testimony let the reader remember
is furnished by the reliable and regular
correspondent of a journal which is an ad-
mirer of Sigel. He proceeds to drnounce
ba Ia -
GERS cOmmand and men who war, as a
general thing, with some most honorable
exceptions. for power, plunder, and pay"
and concludes:
Il have been told that to write thus is to
give aid and comfort to the enemy. do
not believe il. am told also, that it is
against military rule for subordinate off
Ger thus to wife, and that | shall bring
upon myself all the ind igna:ion of the high
est officers Of the corps ard subject N.Y.
self to arrest aud trial. Neither do | be-
ieve this The chiefs of the corps do not
fear the truth. And if they did, and if the
truth, affecting my country's honor and
liberties, by being spoken out manfully,
condemned me to suffering. | should twice
deserve it if shrank from speaking il
STILL"
In the course Of his letter the writer
makes a contrast between the com mands
of Si9el and Fitz John Porter, the latter
of whom, because he has been known as
the friend of Mcclellan, is relieved OF COM
mand and taken from field in which he
has so greatly distinguished himself:
"What contrast does all this present 10
any other army corps in the field! Fnz
John Porters corps containing at least ten
H. cusand more men than this, have march
ed from the upper Potomac, through the
whole Valley. down to Warrenton. during
the last week. Not a private house was
intruded upon by the officers: headquar-
ers were 10 tents; soldiers were in no in
stances permitted to depredate upon inhab
illnls; and what of Union feeling there was
and 1t i far more extensive than | had
supposed, all over Vlrginis-was not chok-
ed out OF life by the bitterness of priv ate
wrongs.
EE Two Irishmm were in prison, one
for stealing a cow, and the other for steal