Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-05-08
OUR ARMY CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from Camp winfield Scott.
CAMP WINFIELD SCoTT, near J
Yorktown, April 26, 1852. (

1t is wet, cold and very unpleasant day.
| received late papers this morning, and am
dlsgusted with the manner in which some of
the Press treat om General saw General
Smith several times during the day of the
action and hIs headquarters were not ten
rods from ouS camp. He was not intoxicated,
nor did be show any signs Of it. He had a
very spirited horse and rode up to one of our
batteries and asked for a glass to recon-
noitre the enemy's works. One of the Off
GERS handed him one and he reached to take
it. Just then a shell from the enemy came
screaming over his mead and burst in a hun
dred pieces. His horse plunged and threw
him, and from that circumstance came the
report that Gen, Smith was drunk, and
sacrificed the Vermont boys" The officers
commanding troops here have sent to Senator
Foot an emphatic and distinct denial of any
such charge against Gen. Smith
When will they get through with McClel-
Ian? | see that arch-6end Cot the deepest
He'll that ever Just God created for souls
stained with crimes blacker than He'll itself,)
Wendell Phillips, spoke in Boston, All had
to take it from his venemous tongue, but he
called Mcclellan an " indellible mark fas-
tened upon us. He did not believe him to
| be traitor but thought he represented, with
Halleck and Buell., the Fairfaxes and Essex
es in the English Revolution of 1910, who
who were anxious not to hurt anybody
He was appauded Think of this, with Bu-
ell in the thick of the fight driving back the
hosts of Beauregard from the battlefield Of
Shiloh, Halleck ready to renew the fight
near Corinth, Mcclellan here in the midst Of
the enemy's batteries and bullets at York.
town-and Wendell Phillips applauded fol
sldndering their good names a thousand mile
from danger IN the city of Boston We are
here ready to undergo hardships and priva,
yations, to fight, and if need be, to die, that
this nation may be preserved intact l tel
Won the truth when | say that officers ant
men are sick at heart, and feel but poor en-
couragement to attack the enemy, when ev
erv paper we take up slanders our officer
and condemns us for not accomplishing Ina
possibilities. Is it rights it ust,-do W
: deserve it2 Let the great host of slanderer
/ come down here and bring the grumbler
, with them. Let them toll night and day i
bitches or on breastworks let them bull
roads, and lift artillery wagons from the dee
mire, mount heavy guns and fill sand bag
in rain, and so ragged tina. their clothes onl
= partly protect them; with hard bread an
d salt pork to live on all this in the present
e and under the guns of relentless foe, an
e often take dead or wounded comrade an
bear him away,-perhaps he may live lor
~ enough to send some message to the de-
! ones away there in Vermont,-then bury hi
= with a rough slab to mark the spot, and wi
c hearts swelling with grief return to Il
t, trenches. Would they like that, think !?
would they go on, fight battles, surprise Il
enemy, and win victories ? My dear sir,
have not painted the picture TOO highly.
le Mcclellan is an " indellible mark "-tir
a will prove it. You of the north will he
5 the glad shout soon that Yorktown is take
- rebellion crushed, and the United States
- nation unbroken and unsevered, and tn
ID where will be his slanderers2 Time mai
w many shanges, ! feel to-day just as ! ha
IN written. Yours, &c, "a
)y q.