The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-25
Mr.. Richards, of the Gate City, at Keokuk,
has received an appointment in the Office of the


Mr.. Richards, Of the Gate City, at Keokuk,
has received an appointment in the Office of the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue,-Tressury
Department. His position is that of first class
clerk. am glad of it, 1st, because he is q
friend, and most worthy gentleman; I'd, be
cause he has nearly worked himself into the
grave in the cause, at the Gate City Office, and
is entitled to the comparative ease and comfort
able provision Of Government. He has entered
upon his duties.
hear statement, which comes from quar-
ter that gives it good degree of probability, to
the effect that the country is to be divided into
two grand divisions, Mcclellan is to be placed in
command of the Eastern and Halleek Of the
Western, the command of the Army of the Po-
tomac to be assigned to Booker. If would seem
az if movements were making for an early en-
gagcment of Mcclellan with the rebel armv near
Winchester, subsidiary to which movements are
making in this direction to embsrrass or resist
the retreat of the enemy upon Richmond, should
Mcclellan defeat him. These understood move
ments may be deceptive Bntif not, they would
seem to imply an engagement so near at hand
the movement planned and the preliminaries
now actually Transporting under the auspices Of
Mcclellan that he cannot prudently be trans
lated to another position until the present prob.
lem is worked out. But for this should be dis
posed to credit the probability of the above ar
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at least contingent upon very near probabilities,
nevertheless. That sort of an arrangement, to
get Haleck out of his position as Genera-in-
Chief and Mcclellan out Of field command,
looks to me exceedingly like Mr.. Lincoln. Both
of these things am sure he would like to do
But he likes to do all such things as easy as he
can,-sometimes sacrificing proper thoroughness
in official changes to an ease which involves the
least modicum of partizan or personal discen.
tent. v -
A great many of our Iowa and Illinois officers,
Shiloh prisoners, just received from rebel
clutches are now here. They came in rags, bit
they are now in shining new suits, enjoying the
luxury of clean shirts and dickeys, and are as
energetic and intelligent looking body of men
as you will meet in Washington. They have
many curses to bestow upon the rebels for their
infamous treatment while in their hands. Two
hundred and five are reported to have died in
rebel prisons, chiefly for the want Of sufficient
sustenance, starved to death They think the
rebels pursued the deliberate policy of so hous
ing and feeding them as to kill them off by star.
walton and disease. They have many curses, too,
for some of our officers, particularly Sherman
and Grant, and do not speak very highly of an
Iowa officer promoted 'for gallant conduct" on
the field of Shiloh. Of Sherman they are very
vehement and unanimous in denunciation. Of
Grant their censures are not very sparing Es-
pecially do they censure him for his report, still
uncorrected, which made the command of Prem
tiss to appear as surprised and captured early in
the morning. while they were not surprised, and,
instead of being early captured, they fought on
from the time when the centre broke and fed,
at o'clock P. N. until to 6, knowing their
peril, expecting to be destroyed or captured,
with the sole view Of retaining the enemy on
the field go late that they could not press our
whole army back to the river, and into it, be.
fore night, trusting that before morning Buell.
might come to its relief. These features of the
case Gen. Premises report will present In
Justice to these officers and their men, his re-
port ought to be allowed to be printed, and the
facts pertaining to their conduct thus officially
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will allow it. Iowa. u,