Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-25

ders,snd you arigh, thar you wish that person
ally should accompany this expejti0ul
Very respectfully
laws MeDowELL.
THE PRESIDENT TO cFc. NDovKLL
WASHINGTON. My "a. 1862.
Mejor General NeDsspea:
I am highly gratii ID by your alAcrity in
obeyiBz my orders. The change was as pain
fnl 70 me a. It can possibly be to you or any
one
Everything now depends upon the CELEBRITY
and vigor OF your movements
A. LINCOLN
GEN. M'DowELL TO SECRETARY STANTON.
HEADQUARTERS DEPr RArPAHAxSocNl
May "a. 1862.
Hon T. N. Stanton. Secretary Of War:
The Presidents order has been received and is
in process Of execution. This is a crushing blow
to Us lRyIN Mcdowell. Major General.
GIN K'DowKLL TO GEN MCCLELLAN
HEADQUARTERS DEP'T RAPPAHANxooKl
Manassas. June ~, 1862
Major General H. b Mcclellan, Commanding
Department Of Virginia before Richmond:
The delay of Major General Banks to relieve
the division of nv command in the valley beyond
the time | had calculated on will prevent my
joining you with the remainder of the troops | am
10 take below at as early day as named. My
81 division (McCalI's) is now on the way
Please do me the favor TO place it shat it
NAV be in a position TO Join the others as they
come down from Fredericksburg
irwin Mcdowell.
Major General Commanding.
GENERAL N lowell TO GENERAL MCCLELLAN.
June TO- 1862
Major General Mcclellan, Commanding Depart
ment of Virginia, before Richmond:
For the third time | am ordered to join you,
and hope this time to get through In view of
the remarks made with reference to nv leaving
you and not joining you before by your friends,
and of something have heard as coming from
YOU on that subject, wish TO say 90 with the
greatest satisfaction, and hope to arrive with my
main body in time 10 be of service Mccall goes
III advance by water. | will be with you in ten
days with the remainder by way Of Fredericks-
burg. Irwin MCDOWELL,
Major General Commanding
Gurowskis diary, of Nav, SAYS: 1.-THE Pres
ident took il into his head to direct himself. by
telegraph the military operations from Freder
icksburg to the Shenandoah The country sees
with what results. The military advisers of the
President seem no better than his civil advisers.
Seward Blair & Co." But the President acted
against the judgment of his advisers On this
point a correspondent Of the Boston Daily Ad
vertiser Republican, relates a conversation be-
tween the Secretary of War and his informant
in which MIR. Stanton attributed the disaster in
the Shenandoah Valley 10 the Presidents will
fulness; that those persons who were consulted
unanimously pointed out 10 him the danger at
tendant upon taking Shields brigade away from
Banks. and represented that Fremont. who had
nothing in particular to do, could spare Blenker's
brigade That the President said, No; that he
had promised Fremont commando that com
mand meant men,; and, therefore. upon no high
er ground. ordered that Shields brigade should
be taken"
The evidence then is that it was the panic
fright of the President himself that divided the
army in the first Instance, and SO led to the
bloody, protracted and exhaustiug campaign OF
the Peninsula, aud that withdrew one corps from
the field of operations afterward at the critical
moment.
We have repeatedly said that Mcdowell was
not responsible for this ingorious and disastrous
defeat; but had protested against it. IL might
well have been the ambition of his life to have
marched into Richmond with Mcclellan, at the
head of his column, sharing in the final victory
without having encountered the terrible ordeal
of the advance from Yorktown.
We have thus little broken light shed upon
the history of the campaign. Give US morel Are
not the people entitled to know the truth in re
gard to war to which they have given their
hearts blood and their treasure? Why does The
Administration persist in snppressing the TRUTH
BY the gliumer of light accidentally afforded
us, we some of the guilty figures covering in
Washington, whose trepidation aud blind alright
opened the way to JackSOh's army on the PENN
sula and paral wed the column of Mcdowell, and
placed so far back that Burnside's perilous
campaign Oh the RappahaDnock. even if crowned
with brilliant success. does not restore to the
position we then lost The chapter in history
which We have accidentally come into possession
of, vindicates not only Mcdowell, but Mcclellan
1t is tardy and imperfect act of Justice. but !,
explains the silence of the latter General, who
could only defend himself by incuIpatIng the
President, ana who, with a magnanimity not a.
precated. forebore to do