Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-09-03
THE Army of the Potomac.

f. One of the most dismal and discouragins
pictures of the war is that developed of6ci
I ally in the Senate on Wednesday. These
facts have already been laid before the
public through our columns !. but now thai
they are officially promulgated they must
strike the loyal people with double force
The army of the Potomac was originally
230, 900 strong. Prior tothe 9th of April
according to the testimony Of the Assistant
Seorstary Of War, Tucker, Mcclellan had
120, 900 men at Y Yorktown.. Subsequently,
Franklin's division, $4,000; Me0alrs di.
vision, 10000; l,000'from Baltimore and
Fortress Monroe, and Shields division.
5000, were sent to him, making total Of
|15s,000. General Meigs and Wadsworth
testified that McC Clellan had'a[l he asked
for. Only nineteen regiments wereleft tc
guard Washington. The correspondent Of
the Commercial telegraphs that the res
possibility for Balls Bluff is divided be.
tween Stone and Mcclellan; yet Stone was
sent to Fort Warren, while Mcclellan has
been suffered to hold in his hands the des.
tinies of this great nation. CIV
1t is known that the President said, on
his return from James rivet, that Mcclel;
Ian could account for only half the men
sent to him.: Of the $4,000 brave men
he had upon the Peninsula, only $4,000
were effective when the battles commenced,
and when he fually landed on James river,
ouly 10000 could be mustered for active
duty Thus from the time he Landed at
Yorktoap to the beginning of the great
battles he lost, it seems, in various ways,
$4,000, and between the landing >and the
close of the seven-days' fighting $4,000 out
Of the $4,000 had been killed, had died
in the'swamps, or had by sickness been
rendered unfit for service. These are the
facts, as they are now before the country.
The picture, we repeat, is the most dismal
and discouraging that could be presented.
1t is sickeniug to think that the finest army
the world ever saw SHOULD have been thus
sacrificed and nothing accomplished. - -:
These developments relieve Secretary
Stanton from the charges made. against him
BY the partisans of a general, who has in
less than q year lost nearly 1000 out of
10000 men, without; accomplishing any:
thing leaving the rebels stronger and, the
governments weaker in Eastern Virginia
than they were six months ago. And we
have authority for, saying that Secretary
Stanton stands higher with the, President
now than atauy previous. time;' sad-expe-
rieuce having made plain the wisdom Of the
policy and the plans that he favored. The
people who have been misled by blind or
unscrupulods press will not be slow to do
justice to Mr., Stanton. He will rise high
er in the estimation of the. loyal people
from the gross and undeserved abuse which
has been heaped upon him.
In view of the facts presented, it is not
strange that the people should demand a
uew war policy. It would be strange, in
deed, it would be criminal, if the voice Of
the people did not rattle in thunder tones
around the ears Of the President for new
men to direct affairs in the field, and new
measures to govern the conduct of the war.
Cincinnati Gazette (Repa51ican), l7h.