Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-05-07
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frotest aEalnat SiandeF.
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Com,
ms-uiAl, writing from the vicinity q Pitts
burg Landing, uses the following strong
and msrited language regarding tie alan
der which has been cast upon some Of the
Ohio troops;
The gullies that ran with the rich hearts,
blood Of our brave soldiers are now 90 Of.
fensive to the nogtrils that you turn aside
10 avoid them. The sterile hill lands will
for years 70 come grow Fanker corn and
Ersener meadoWs. How very many Of our
poor fellows sleep in the deep woods and
high bluffs Of this field Of carnage upcn
the bank Of the Tennessse9 How many
hearth stones are forever deserted h54
many homes hlled with sorrow; what deep,
Untold desolation Ellis all the hearts cham
bers Of fond mother-sisteT-Wife I
would speak cautiously; would not lift
. finger against the reputation Of 6 single
brave man who takes his life in bis hand,
and goes cut 70 fight his c0untrys battles.
Bat whether Courts Martial or the Var
Department ever Investigates the cause Of
this massacre or not the people viii have.
6 fearful reckoning with It's author whoever
be nay be. Il is sll in vain 10 6isband
regiments snd send others 70 the rear in
disgrace for eOWsrdiee; il reminds me Of
the ample ostrich that hides its head in
the sand, and leaves its huge carcass q
mark for ihs pursusF. aF
Nov | claim for no single State excel
isnOe over that Of any other. Give the
men the same good cause for which to con-
tend, and they will fight equally we'll; but
DO think it has become crying sin the
way or Ohio troops have been used BY
correspondents d By the press. Our
Ohio reporters (uot pezhaps being knoFn
50 Well) believe have geuerally managed
20 feed and driEk ct the tables Of Colonsls
and Generals from Indians soEs, Ken
tuoky, Aiohigsu, ete., and while swelling
with fulness they forget that Ohio has
brave soldier in the tight With one g.
oeption, nobody would haye known from
the Cincinnati reporters IN the recent bat
lie, but what every man from Ohio ran
like q oHard ~
For days the people OF Ohio lay under
the deep mobilization and disgrace of her
sons. For days Indiana, Illinois and Iowa
Wsded ia blood and dii the most dsFiug
sots, Ohio wearing only the badge Of dis
grace. Eventually the Ohio reporters, IN
entering q final statement, gave the people
70 understand that Ohio men were in the
thieksst and the bloodiest Of that terrible
struggle. ask this Of every true man
il it right2 l do not ask pgfs-bnly the
tFUfh. Common pride Of home or deoenoy
should have held the tongue Of Blsnd6r az
least No doubt ct that fight meh ran
went In disorder. But as one old man (not
- l. H. n.-fr
ten thousand men we're gathered ia oonfu-
sion, said, They we're from all the Ststes;
ofioers from Indiana Kentucky, Illinois,
lows, we're all there, calling for their men
to fall in"
What regiment 70 day can you point out
that suffered more than the very one dis
grsced and disbsnded7 Their poor bodies
lie uneasy In their uRhonOred graves BY
scores; their wounded they bad bettsr
have been killed ere all in your hospitals
Why not kick them out, the " poor s0dr
ards"7 like brave man; dislike .
coward; bat If had been geneFsled as
our diBgraced regiments we're at the battle
Of Shiloh, / should have run, myself.
have seen troops Of every stat5 Of the
West in the fight; sl are brave; they have
au made sacrifoes 70 defend their country
"a It's hour Of peril, snd 4 D G bastard
hand that VII give them public thrust
that strikes deeper than the hsdrt--1bsir
kosoT. -a 40 4
I do not intend 10 thrust ct the fair name
Of any Of our soldiers Of fneighbOrihg States
] could state some things which are spoken
Of here, which, perhaps, might be as NOR
tifying to the State pride Of some Of our
sister States as any that has been misfepl
resented Of Ohio -,