Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-20
The OutTages Committed by the
Troops OF a tadicai Geucrai--Con-
trasS with FitzJohn Portcr's Corps.

The army correspondent OF the New York
Commercial Adrerfiser. leading Republican pa
per, writes from Warrenton on the l0th an ac
count of the rsanton outraees committed by the
troops of Gen. SIGELs corps in the march tor
ward. He says:
The court martial now setting brings out the
facts of the a.rocious conduct Of the staff and
others in the burning of Haymarket, in such a
manner that To Unit Sigel" town will here
alter be word of terror to all. The work
was done under the direction OF Lieutenant
and Count. both connected with the staff
They claim TO have had authority. which. how
ever, does no, appear. The former, with al Or
derry and some soldiers. went into shed and
split and prepared the kindling for burning the
houses. All pr0te-tatOns on the part OF the wo
men and children. for such only. with few old
men. left in the village. were UNDECIDED
The tirts were set IN various places amid terror
and shrieks One poor woman, whose child was
very i'll, begged that the house might be saved
Her plea, if unintelligible in woris-lOr German
was the only language in which the soldiers
spoke-mu-t have been understood in actions,
for she held the poor sufferer up before them: but
it was i'm vain. and the morning the body oi
the dead baby laid by the side of the smoking
ruins of the house One old man. who pleaded
earnestly that one house at least might be left
TO shelter the hOuseless inhabitants from the
cold. was struck three times by Count - with
his sword and badly wounded He has, however,
been able to attend and give his testimony before
the court
| understand that every house, barn, shed and
every description of building was utterly de
stroyed. and that during the pitiless weather of
the last four DAYS the poor inhabitants have been
endeavoring to keep themselves warm under the
shelter huts made from the boughs of trees.
The testimony, let the reader remember, is
furnished by the reliable and regular CORES
pendent OF journal which is an admrer of
SIeEL. He proceeds to denounce the whole
rank and file of this radical officers command
and men who "war, a general thing, with
some most honorable exceptions, for power,
plumber and pay" and concludes:
l have been told that to write thus is to give
aid and comfort TO the enemy. do not believe it..
] am tod also. that il is against military rule for
subordinate officer thus TO write. and that shall
bring upon my~el all the Indignation of the high
est officers in the corps and subject myself to ar
rest aud trial Neither do | believe this The
chiefs in the corps do not fear the truth. And il
they did. and ii the TRUTH affecting my country 5
honor and Liberties. by being spoken out man
fully, condemned me To suffering, | should twice
deserve it if shrank from speaking il still
In the course of his letter the Commercial
writer makes a contrast between the commands
of SIGrL and FITz JoHN PORTER. the latter of
whom. because he has been known the friend
of MCCLELLAN. is relieved of command and
taken from field in which he has so greatly
distinguished himself:
What a contrast does all this present to any
other army corps in the field. Fnz John Porter>
corps containing IT least ten thousand more men
than this. have marched from the Upper Poto
mac. through the whole Valley. down to " ar
renton during the last week. Not private
house intruded upon by the officers; head
quarters were in tents: soldiers were in no in
stances permitted To depredate upon inhabitants:
and what of Union feeling there was-and il is
far more extensive than had Supposed all over
Ntr-ina-was not chcked out of life 10y the bit
terne>s Of private Wrongs