The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1862-10-25
Gen. KearneY,a Letter.

fishes the following letter from Major Genera
kearney to O. s. Halstead, Jr., of Newark I
has been much talked of, and good deal o
curiosity expressed to see it, and we publsl
it therefore as point in the history of tn,
times. 1t is evidently very hasty letter, writ
ten in the strict confidence of private friend
ship, and one which General Kearney probabl,
would have never consented to have published
were he alive.
HARRIsoN's LAND1Na)
Aug. 4th, 1862
"DEAR PET:-I thank you for your kind
long letter. You extend to me hope. You sug
gest Withdrawing me and my Division out Of
this ignoble position. With General Pope's ar
my, would breathe again.
We have no Generals Mcclellan is the fail
ure have proclaimed him. He is punished
just as at once comprehended the moves OF
the parties He will only get us in more fol-
lies more waste of blood, fighting by dribblets
He has lost the confidence of all. Nor has he
single officer about him capable of betterins
u.s. Sumner is "bull in a china shop" and a
sure enough blunderer. -- lost his corps
gratuitously at Fair Oaks
He is not now in his right place, and will be
much worse -- is small brain, ossi-
fed in ~ company" garrison on the frontier.
He was not ''of US" in Mexico, but in a rear col.
umn once saw distant fl ,sh in a guerrilla fight.
His skill is myth, poetical version OF his
own part at Ball Run. Potter is good in ma
ture, but weak as wster-the apparent cant of
all this disaster for his want of Generalship on
the Chickahomny. - and franklin are tai
ented engineers They might make good Gen
erals if they understood the value of the ele-
ments in their calculations as it is, they are
dangerous failures.
When - was drunk, he had some few men
drowned before Yorktown. know of no 9TH
er feat of his. Franklin's battle of West Point
was most runaway picket fight of ours His
part on the Chickahominy was objectionable. -
He sent over q division (his own,) was present
on tba. side out Of fire. and never interferred to
prevent them from being sacrificed by dribblets
and rendered a prey to their false position, l
was horrifed at it, as described by Gen. Taylor,
and all others. Is it surprising that l want to
get out of this "mess?"
Beside, they have sent me Major General
ship, like all these others, dating from the 4th
1t July, muddled in batch of new and very Or
binary junior officers Do they forget that
was appointed twelfth On the original list +? That
I, on the heels of Bull Run, faced the enemy
with Jersey Brigade in advance of all Others,
Mcclellan, Mcdowell, ct i'd onpae genus, nearly
forcing me to come back of the Seminary.
Do they forget me at Manassas? My Jersey
Brigade that infected with panic the retiring
'nemy? Has Williamsburg never come to their
'ars? Oh, no! really feel aggravated beyond
Discipline becomes degradation if
lot welded with justice. Patriotism caEnot,
mid all her sacrifices, claim that of self respect
Generals, victorious in the past, are not called
N to expose their troops, unless those brave
nen are acknowledged.
Their identity in their chiefs promotion,
aims date of their own high acts. Oh, no,
am nearer returning TO the home have given
p 10 the interests | have sacrificed, to my
hefished wife, whose anxiety oppresses me,
nan ever dreamt OF in q war fer the Union