New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-09
GEN. STONE AND MRS. GARRETTY


To ne Edfo,or Then y Tinea
SIR: THr TRIBUNE of yesterday contained o letter
headed "a Woman's Story" which, If allowed to
remain unconec,ed. cannot fail to unfairly prejudice
the minds Of people against Gen. Stone The letter
asserts that in an ungenteman-ikea and naughty man.
ner the General abruptly refused Mrs. -, wife of
Capt -, IN brave high-oned and respected officer
ia the Tsmmany Regiment Of this City, flag
Of truce with which she might recover the body u
her husband, WHO was killed at Balls Bluff and
buried by the rebels This assertion ia coupled With
gratuitous insults TO Gen. Stone, intimating very
broadly that he s 10 sympathy with the rebels and
en- Joys their intimacy.
The writer Of this paragraph was, on the occasion
knuded to 10 the letter the Special Correspondent OF
The Times with Gen. Stones Divi ion, and Is able,
Of personal knowledge 10 state the following facts
Gen. Stone granted TO the friends Of Capt. Alden
flag of truce and they obtained the body OF their de-
ased relative by that The fact having be-
come publicly known General Stone received scores
Of letters and kilograms fro widows, brothers, and
friend IT, all over the country akiug the same favor,
and 80 great became the demand that he perempoily
refused one and all, for obvious reasors.
About this time, Mrs. Garrstiy, widow OF Capt.
Garretty went to Poolesville and boarded with the
family 81 DIR. Poole. With the Doctor sbe waited
the General and desired permission to seek her bus
band body. lie told Der Of the numerous applica-
tons uiade, and OF lis invariable reply; and then,
audng 10 the circumstances OF her husbands death,
said that he had died as any soldier might desire to
die-gallanrly fighting at the head OF his company,
ard 80 conducting himself rs TO win the admiration
Of Zoe and friend. His manner wss peculiarly cour-
,eous and kind, and ii seems mott strange to me-,
tia, one so eminenty gentle as be, should be pub
li,ly accused u roughly treating asorrowing woman.
The parting between Gen. Stone, Mrs. Garretty,
and Dr. Poole, was devoid Of ything like annoy.
ance on her side, or incivlity on bis.
Ia regard 10 Gen. Stones intimacy with the rebel
leaders will say a word. Ii seems rather hard
that man who has spent twenty years OF bis lie
in the service of his country should be so assaled
behind his back that comparative strangers feel it
their duty TO defend him: but in spite OF all that
will mention that Gen. Evans, who commands
the rebel forces at Leesburgh, was Q pupil
OF Gen. Stone at West Point, and between them,
as ia the case with many officers on either side
Of this contest, there bad always existed a
warm friendship until the beginning oil the rebellion
aud when Gen. Stone, in reply TO q question from
Mrs Garretty, replied that the officers at Leesburg
were gentlemen, and could be believed III their
statements concerning the burial Of her husband, be
intended, as every reasonable person must see, to
convince her that be believed they had carefully in
tered the Captains remains, and that on that point
abe must be satisfied. II.
ksto- York Dec a. 1901