Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-25


ships aud Major Generalships.
John Mitchell, the Irish Secessionist, now
editing the Richmond Enquirer, is mentioned
for a Brigadier Generalship in the Confederate
service.
General Howell Cobb is raising a new reg
iment for service in Middle Florida, where he is
to have a command.
The Pension Office at Washington has late
ly recorded the nineteenth thousandth application
of wives made widows by this war between the
Northern and Southern States.
"A Washington paragraph says that General
Hooker passed Thursday afternoon in riding
about Washington with Mrs. Lincoln. On
Thursday evening the President decided to retain
and sustain IN in command of the army.
Gen. Ord is still at Carlisle Barracks, whittier
ne was exiled, as u punishment for coming to
Washington without leave, while a member of
the Buell. Commission.
The famous Colonel Grierson is described
as a tall. spare man, with a determined cast of
countenance, eight Completed" and every
inch a soldier.
The New York independent says: Generals
do not thrive under the drip of the Capitol. At
thirty six hours distance from Washington ar
mics and Generals succeed. At twenty hours
they Just hold their own, but within six hours
they are as dead as a field of wheat under the
shadow of upas trees"
The NEW York INDEPENDENT on "SrosE-
WALL" JACKSONVILLE current number of The
independent, in a leader upon Thomas j. Jack
son, the eminent Rebel General, who died a few
day ago, from wounds received in the confusion
of the battle Of Charlottesville, at the hands Of
his own men, says:
-. L. - offor tho
flesh. He is no longer a foe. We think OF him
now as a noble minded gentleman, a rare and
eminent Christianl For years he has been an ac-
tive member of the Presbyterian Church, OF
which he was a ruling elder. He never, in all the
occupations of the camp, or temptation OF cam
paigns, lost the fervor of his piety, or RENTED
his Christian duties.
We know that before every important move
he spent much lime in prayer. He bad so put his
soul in the keeping OF his master that he was re.
lieved from all thoughto of self. and had the whole
power of his lite ready for his work. Officers of
Fremont's army. who pursued him in his famous
retreat from the Shenandoah Valley, found him to
be greatly beloved by the common people, among
whom, in former times, he had labored in prayer
meetings, in temperance meetings, and in every
Christian word and work. No wonder he fought
well along a region whose topography he had
mapped down with prayers, exhortations, and
Christian labor.
Let no man suppose that the North will tri
umph over a fallen son with insulting gratula-
tons! Nowhere else will the name of jackson
be more hOnOred. Not for adhesion TO the cause
of slavery, but for his untarnished personal char
acter. for his devout piety, and for his military
genius.
How GENERAL GRANT STARTED on HIS PRES
ENT CAMPAIGN The Chicago Tribune learns
from a gentleman who participated in the recent
campaign of General Grant. IN to the time the
enemy crossed the Big Black in the retreat to
wards Vicksburg, thai in starting on the move
ment the General dis%encumbered himself of eT cry
thing, setting an example to his officers end men.
He took neither a horse nor a servant, overroat.
blanket, tent, camp chest, nor even n ciean shirt.
His only baggage consisted of a tooth brush. He
shared all the h~ardships of the private soldier,
sleeping in the front and in the open air, and eat
ing hard tack and salt pork. He wore no sword
had on a low crowned citizens hat; and the only
thing about him to mark him a II military man,
was his two stars on his undress military coat.
REPORTS OF OUR PARoLED PRISONERS -
Eighty paroled officers have reached Washington,
and their experience has a public as well as per
sonal interest. We quote it:
When they had marched five miles on the road
to Gordonsville. IA courier informed their guard
that Stoneman was in the vicinity, whereupon
they marched back again and took Il fresh start
towards Richmond, but we're again stopped by
another courier with the same intelligence. The
third time they proceeded by a circuitOus route,
arriving at SpottsylvaniA Courthouse on Satur-
day night, where Col. Miller the Rebel commander
tried to procure food, but failed, there being none
attainable for his own men. Monday morning,
thew marched fifteen miles to Guineas Station,
where they were put into a field in n hard rain.
and kept all night. Tuesday, a barrel of -four
was issued to them to be baked and divided as
best they could. the first food food they had par.
taken of since their capture-neariy three days
Wednesday night, they were put in Il railroad
car and taken to Richmond, receiving jeers and
insults in profusion, the women being particularly
abusive. Arriving at Richmond, they were put
in n prison guarded by citizens with old muskets
some of them not loaded.
On Sunday Governor Letcher, breckenridge
(brother to Gen. j. c.. Brickinridge,) and others
visited the prison. Letcher said that Lincoln
could have closed this thing if he desired
long ago." and that he called on President
Lincoln himself before Virginia went out, but &c
no purpose.
Gen. HAYES remarked, Supposed Douglas hac
been elected, what would have been dOne?"
Breckenridge replied that he and the South haC
been disunionists for fifty years. and they were
hound To have disuniOn anyhOw-all tina: they
asked was to be let alone. not wishing to harm
US. This is the general feeling here" ht
added.
On their way to City Point they we're not al
lowed to ride in the cars to Petersburg. though
they were running empty. and were marched
distance of twenty two miles.
Gen. Hayes. Lieutenant f. L. Ford and Lieu
tenant Lee succeeded in hiring a carriage for for
tY dollars in greendacks to convey them some tel
miles.
Jim. Harrison. the actor, told one of our off
GERS that StOneman could easily have come in
to Richmond with three hundred men, don,
much damage, and carried off many spoils, bs
side liberating the prisoners.
-FIGuREs DO NOT LIE-The Tribune saw,
Lees army at the time Hooker crossed 70 Civ,
him battle only counted Sc. 900 men. The Time.
saws HOOker's army at the same time numbered
l59 300 men. 1t thus appears that, with NOR,
than three times Lees army. Hooker was unabl,
to whip him in the first fight, aud unable to do i
with twice aud a half his number of men after h,
got his endorsements According to the state
ments of the Tribune and Times, Hooker's los,
in killed and wounded, in the several battles
amounted to only from 1900 to 5000, which
with the prisoners captured by the enemy, mum
bering 1000 or 5000 more. would make the tota
loss from 5000 to "a. Zoo. Lee, il is stated b,
the same authorities. lost more than Hooker did
or about 1000 mel-exceeding half his origina
force. be could not have been reinforced b,
more than from 10000 to $1,000 men. Tha
would leave his whole force after his losses-in
GLIDING the loss of General Jackson, who was
host in himself-from 30, ZOO to 40, 900 men. Be
fore this small force Hooker retrcated with an
army which, after all his losses. still numbered
1876 900 men. or about four to one Of the enemy
So much for the generalsbip and fighting quail
ties of the new Napoleon.-lN. Y. Herald.
The CAPTURE or Col. SrREIeHr Genera