The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-04-21

Just in give information concerning the supposit,s
that Jackson's advance In at Hanover Court
House. and that Beauregard arrived with strong re-
think that Jackson will attack my right and rear The
rebel force 10 stated at 100000 including Jackson and
Beauregsrd. shall have 10 contend against vastly
win do all in the power OF to hold their position
and repulse any attack regret my great ineriority
of numbers but feel that am i'm no way responsible
for it, have failed represent repeatedly the
necessity of reinforcements that this the decisive
point and All che available means the Govern
ment should be concentrated here. will do all that
General do with the splendid army have the
honor 10 command; aud If it is destroyed by over
whelmng numbers, nc least die with it aud share
its But if the result of the action, which viii
occur to within short tme is disaster,
the responsibility cannot be thrown my shoulder
&c must rest where il belongs. r. 81
Since commenced this have received additional
intelligence confirming the supposition in regerd 70
Jacksons movements and Beauregard / shall prooa-
bly, be attacked to-morrow, and 60 70 the other
side of the Chickahomny arrange for the defence
on that side feel that there is use in my again
asking for renforcements. s.. s- s--.-
- F111 .GxoRer B. MccLsLLAs, Major Gen.
20 Hon. Z. NJ. Stanton. See'y Of War. ~,
The answer Of the President is as follows: E
WASHINGTON June &C. 1862. -
Your three dispatches of yesterday in relation to
the affair ending with the statement that you COM
pleely succeeded in making point very grail
flying The later one, Of quarter past p m, sug-
costing the probability Of being oy
zoo 900 men, and talking Of whom the responsibility
will belong, pains very much. give you MI can,
and the presumption that You will do the best
you with what you have; while you continue un-
more if would. ! have omitted l shall omit, OPP
portuny to send you achievements whenever pos
siby A LINCOLN.
Then we have history of the seven days
lighting, and the following statement as to how
the falling back was managed:
1t would appear, from all the information your COM
mittee obtain, that the battles fought, the
troops handled, dispositions made, and old ones
changed, entirely by the corps commanders, without
directions from the Commanding General. He would
place the troops in the morning then leave the field
seek the position for the next day. giving drec
lions until the close of the days fighting, when the
troops would be ordered to fall back during the night
to the position selected by him. In that manner
the army reached the James river. After getting TO
lIarrisons Landing Mcclellan applied for 3d. 600 REIN
enable him to active operations.
General Hneck, when he visited the army, informed
Gen. Mcclellan that the Government could furnish
him only 20 900 additional troops. Gen. Mcclellan
consented to renew operations with that number Of
reinforcements, and Gen IIaeck left with that under
standing. But the day that he left Gen. Mcclellan
him, asking for l5 900 or 90 900 troops from
the Western army, in addition 10 those promised to
him. urging very strongly that they should be brought
there temporarily to be returned to the West after
Richmond should have been taken. AS ,his couldn't
be DONE the order given for the withdrawal of the
army, rapidly possible, in order operate
with the forces under Gen Pope, then in the presence
of a superior force of the enemy.
Here is McClellan's testimony, when examined,
as to why be did not pursue Lee after the battle
of Sharpsburg Cor Antietam):
The next morning the I3h) found that our loss
had been great, and there was much disorganza
ton in of the commands, that did not consider
it proper to renew the attack that day, especially
of the arrival that day of two fresh divisions
tjnnfn ohn Effnan sand A. in
of the condition of of the troops that
morning. happen to recollect the returns of the first
c"rPs-Gen Hooker-made the morning of the 18th,
by which there about 500 reported present
for duty Four days after that the returns of the
corps showed 1880 had arranged, however, to
renew the attack at daybreak the 18th, but I
learned some time during the light early in the
morning that the enemy had abandoned his position
1t proved that he moved it'll great rapidity
and, not being encountered by wagons was enabled to
get his troops the river before could do him
any serious injury. think that taking into coEsidera-
ton what the troops had gone through, got as
much out of them in this Autetam campaign as
human endurance would bear.
The committee give the first correct history Of
the "resignation" of Burnside. 1t appears that
after the battle at Fredericksburg he issued Order
No. 8" dsmissng some officers from the service,
and sentencing some deserters to be shot.-This
order Lincoln refused to approve.
Thereupon Gen. Burnside again insisted that his res
ignation be accepted. This the President declined to
do; and after some urging Gen. Burnside consented
take leave of absence for thirty days. with the
Outstanding that the end of that time he should be
assigned to duty, he deemed it improper to hold
commission Major General and receive his pay with
out rendering service therefor Gen. Burnside object
ed TO the wording of the order which relieved him
from his command and which stated that it at his
own request, being un just to him and unfounded in
fact bnt upon the represen that any other order
would do injury to the cause he consented to let it
main as it then read
The committee came to the conclusion that dur
ing last spring, summer, and winter, the "Union"
armies did literally nothing, and wind up their
port with the following work which remains to be
done:
We see clearly what we have to do. We must
obtain uninterrupted control ofthe Mississippi. We
must reach those great railroad arteries the bor
dering the Atlantic seaboard the other stretching
through the Virginia and Tennessee valleys tue West
and South. We must possible, take the few
fortified senports remaining in possession of the rebels;
and then shall have virtually disarmed the rebel
lion, cut it off from all external of food and
arms, and have surrounded it by forces which can
press upon il from any quarter the time
stroyng their means of inter communication, by which
alone they have hitherto been enabled to meet in
force wherever We have presented ourselves, and by
which alone they have been able to feed and supply
their armies.
A Screw LoosE--The Savannah Republican
says that recently Government -four was passing
over the North Carolina Railroad from Raleigh to
Charlotte on the same Gay that other Government
flour was passing the other way, from Charlotte to
Raleigh. Also that shot of the same calibre and