The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-11-12
From our Regular Correspondent.
Letter from Washington.

From our Regular Correspondent.
Letter from Washington.
Maine Geperdls-Jameson- Houard-Berry,
Cdrieton-Cdldueli-R Observation-Disclosures
Star gone out-in disgrdcef
WASHINGTON, Nov, 8, 1862.
Maine may well be proud of her soldiers
and of her Generals. OF the latter she
has lately been called to mourn one, dead at
his home, victim of the Chickahominy the
mists of the pestience mingling with the
mists of glory around his brow, as an intrep-
id officer.
GBN. JAMESON has left no superior among
the leaders of the half million of men who
now lie stretched inactive from Harper's Fer
ry to Fortress Monroe. As man. genial and
cordial he won friends everywhere. Aud he
never deserted them, no more than he wonld
have deserted his post on fierce and bloody
field. Let him rest by the Penobscot! If
those who survive him prove as brave as he,
the tread of battle shall never sweep where
the grass grows green above his grave;
and peace, good, true, and noble peace, shall
rest on the banner whose flaming folds he
waved in the forefront Of war.
Had the malaria of the Peninsula spared
him for those fights, full alike of glory and Of
shame, which accompanied McClellan's re-
treating path from the swamps TO the James
had his health been spared for those dismal
days, he would have lived, or fallen higher in
rank, and with new wreaths of proves. But
better it is, if perish he must, that he die as
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with the grade he won that dreary day when,
at the head oil Penobscot men, he and they
snatched glory from field whence many
sought but ingorious escape.
GEN HOWARD is an acting Major General,
commanding Division. 1t is from the day of
Antietam that this higher command dates. In
that field his immediate commander fell amid
carnage which broke the lines of the Division.
The senior officer sought in vain to reform its
shattered ranks. "Let Howard take it p said
the General commanding the corps. Thus
called to command, this Christian General,
there amid the crashing of the enemy's artil-
lery among their ranks, and the hail of fierce
musketry, reformed the wavering lines and
led them atresh to the victory which came
with the setting sun-a victory which, from
no fault of his, and such as he, was of poor
and meagre results.
Gen. BERRY was of the army-corps under
Hooker His achievement has been such, his
capacity is so marked, that Gen. Hooker has
most strenuously pressed upon the authorities
the propriety of his appointment as Major
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al-in-chief, that he had no means of knowing
what were Gen. Berry's earlier advantages of
military education he did know that he was a
brave, skillful, gallant, intrepid and patriotic
officer; that he belonged to the class of men
who are to save the country if it is to be saw
ed; and he begged to remind the General-in-
chief that he (Hooker) wond recommend no
man for major general whom he would not
desire to have serve under himself or whom he
would not willingly serve under. Thus is Ber-
ry spoken of by man whose praise is glory.
Gen. CARLETON is another man, of whom
the state may well be proud. He has been so
long away from the state, having been appoint
ed into the army more than twenty years ago,
and passed most of that period in frontier ser
vice, that few among you Of the present gen.
Grafton personally know him. He has, in all
this period, been winning credit as an officer,
and at the same time as a man of letters His
little volume upon the battle Of Beuna Vista,
in which he took part, is most graphic book.
He now has a most important though remote
command, on the Mexican frontier, in Arizo-
ma and New Mexico. where important inter-
ests are at stake.
In the battle of Antietam, as the reader will
see, on referring to Gen. Richardson's report,
the brigade of your Gen. CALDWELL captnr-
ed more rebel flags than any other brigade up
on the field.
Acting Brigadier General CHARLES w.
ROBERTS, who succeeded Jameson as Col. of
the Maine Second, is allowed to have handled
his brigade spendidly, in the battle last men
toned. His old brigade commander, the gem
eral of his division, the general commanding
his army-corps and Gen. Mcclellan, have each
commended him TO the President for appoint
ment as Brigadier-General. He deserves it,
and the gallant Second, never found wanting,
is entitled to furnish another general.
These are some of your Maine chieftafns-
VIII is to lead them on the fields of Virginia?
To-day McClellan's star has gone down in dis
grace, it is feared. What new developments
have led to the removal are known as yet only
to the few high in power. Whispers, hoarse
and baleful III the town to-day, hint of con-
spracy detected to seize the government, and
establish military dictatorship. cannot be-
lieve that the good sense of Mcclellan has
been overpersuaded into SO wretched plot.
But we shall know all if the government has
the nerve to be frank to the people who own
it, If it lack such nerve, God help the repub-
lie at this hour! Yours, ID.
s5- On our first page will be found letter
from our correspondent in the 25th Maine regi-
ment.