The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-05-02
"Sineercly and respectfully
"Your friend,
Jas. SHIELDS, Brig.-Gen.
Tie Chic Regiments.


rum ilc LoulSNllle Jonfldl.
IL is atuted that the Scventy-first reri.
mcnt Ohio volunteers has been deprived
of its colors, aud the Soyenty-s dis
banded aud sent home, for cowardicc at
the battle near Pittsburg Landing. We
do not think that this Is Justice. These
regiments were fresh ones, and. with some
raw recruits from other States, seem to
have been assigned an advanced position,
which was insocurcly guarded by the
usual precautions of pickots and out. posts.
Ii has been asserted and not denied that
some of them were totally without am
munition, and that others had never been
on rcgimcnta parade since their organ.
izaton. What could have been expect
ed from them, when the shameful sur
prise on the morning of the 9th inst, was
permitted
Veterans could not have withsiood tho
vigorous assault OF Johnston and Bcaure-
gard had they been placed in Il similar ia
tai position. II is a very easy matter for
army correspondents who write thrilling
narratives of battles which they never
witnessed, or TOR editors hundreds ofmiles
away from the scene Of conflict, to charge
cowardico upon these sacrificed men, but
every drop Of their blood cries aloud for
strict and searching inquiry into the
causes of the disuster. When this is in
stituicd, we think it more probable that
the verdict will strip epau.ets from some
unworthy shoulders, and restore the col
ors of the dseraced aud disbanded Ohio
regiments. The criminal neglect of that
fatal morning eau never be eXpioted, but
the errors may be; the faults Of comman.
ders who sacrificed so many loyal lives
cannot be overlooked, but LIT the Ohio
regiments have u chance to redeem their
tarnishod honor. A breath has passed
over the fair mirror of their States chiy-
airy, but il may pass away, and from it,
bright surface may be reflected a long
pauorama Of noble, gallant and historic
deeds
We Of Kentucky will never Join i'm any
aspersions upon the Ohio volunteers who
taltered at pillsburg I.anding. The rout.
ed regiments at Boil Run, then undisci-
plmed, have since proved the best soldiers
OF our army, won impershable laurels,
aud been pronounced the finest soldiers
la the world. Ohio does not breed pol.
uoons or towards. She has given To this
war for the Union, Mcclellan, Buell., Nc
Dowell, RosecraHs, w. Il. Sherman,
Mitchell, Garfield, Woods, Sehenek, the
MeCooks, Steadman, Ammon, Fyfe,
tanderyier Harris, Dickey, DeCourey,
Connell, Stanly, Beatty, Whitslesoy, Nor
ton, Walker, Sill, Bradley, Cranor, Glib
son, Matthews, Appler, f0rSythe, Has.
ker, sni scores of others, many of whose
noble regiments have been the sayiors OF
Kentucky from tho devastation of the
Conf dofate armies. The brave menwhC
boast the maternity OF Ohio, or who or,
her sons BY adoption, stood shoulder tS
shoulder with Kentuckians in the deadly
conflict, and recognized the full effect o.
our State motto: "Uniltd we stand, diyi
ded We fall"
I All honor TO them, and all honor to,
TO the luckless Tlst and 77th. The lat
ter may be centured by those to whom
their defeat l. certainly attributable, bu
they eyineed the right spirit when they
volunteered under Col. Mason, at Troy
and Col, Hildeband, at Marietta. Civ,
them tair chance and a short period o
discipline and we viii engage that the,
will make as fine soldiers a. the souhul
can produce. Shame on the eYayens wh'
would seek TO degrade them under III,
i circumstances Of their unpreparedness a
/ Pittsburg Landing and their cons qucn
lpanic. Retribution, speedy and desery
ed, upon those whose criminal careless
ness brought upon them tbs horrors an,
the carnage Of the 9th Of April.