Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-04-08
Ven. AIcClellan's Report Of the Mary
Sand Campaign.

Ven. McClellan,s Report Of the Mary
Sand Campaign.
Il has been charged by his Abolition yillif-
ers, that Gen. MCCLELLAN made no report Of
either bic campaign In the Peninsula or in Ma
ryland. But Il row comes to light that both
these reports we're promptly made and filed in
the War Department, but for some reason have
been sludiously withheld from the public eye
The preliminary report of tho Maryland cam
paign, made about the middle Of October last
is, however. now published for the fret time
The report Of the Peninsular campaign still re-
mains in the War Department., and Ito appear
ance will be looked for with deep interest. II
Is understood that the more extended and de-
tailed rerorts Of both campaigns. though not
yet made, are nearly completed. ,
We give the report of the Maryland cam
paign In full in this paper, and trust It will be
read with the deepest interest by all our read
ers. II 10, as described by ootemporary,
"briei, clear and satisfactory In it's statements,
summing up number Of the most important
eventa of the war In a soldierly, and, at the
same time, In a scholarly STYLE" It is, however,
mainly for its facts that the report deserves and
should receive careful and thorough examin-
alton. It effectuaily disposes of the SANDER
ous charges the Abolition Dsunionists have
sought to fssten on our young General, the Idol
of the army and an honor to his country. Two
of these charges were--Hrst, that he did not
support Pore with alacrity; and secondly, that
he was responsible for the loss Of Harper's
Ferry. The Journal Of Commerce 10 a. review
OF the report thus refers to these two counts 10
the Abolition indictment against General Nc
CLELLAK:
There ia an overwhelming eloquenos in the
simple description of the late commander of
the great army On the Peninsula, at Alexandria
on the 30ih August With only a hundred mem
under his command, having exhausted all the
means OF his disposal to forward supplies TO
Gen. Pope, even to hls own headquarteF teams
which he had dispatched on that service Those
few days In August and September last, will In
future years be material for song and stirring
| description In story. The sound of the battle
was In his ears. The very dust Of the conflict
was visible on the distant horizon. The men
that be loved--and ssddsr still that loved him
were going to death in the tempest of war;
but he might not he, with them, for he was
sitting, forgotten by his Government, In his tent
by the Potomac, his services ignored, bis sword
declined, his loyalty even impeached by base
and ignoble psrtissns, whose motto had sll along
been " the Union is a league with hell "Upon
the unfortunate issue of that campaign" of
Gen. Pope Mcclellan does not tell us 1t was
only the day after he thus sat deprived of com.
mand, disgraced and slone), he received an
intimation that his services were desired" He
/ was etill "instructed that he had DolhinR TO do
with the tsOops under Gen. Pope" but the very
next day made is necessary for the nation
70 call on him TO take command OF all
those troops and save the capital There are
nearly a hundred thousand men living to-day
who, IL they survive the war (ss God grant
they msy), will describe TO their children and
ohiidren's children the exultipg joy of the army
when the news few from regiment to regiment
i over the Virginia hills thst George was in the
field" The name Of the young General, him
sslf the very heart Of the army, saved the cap
ital. The sbOut went rolling down the columns,
It crossed the breaks in the shattered masses,
it rang through the forests, it sped from hill to
hill, until the rear guard caught il up, and it
was heard by the enemy far 10 the rear, by the
Il old felds of conflict toward Manassas. The
tide of battle was stayed In its hoE- The sol
Il diers besOught leave to turn back They were
gifted with new life. They we're no longer q
flying horde, but they were again an army.
Who can doubt 1t, when thirteen days later
they so gallantly carried the crest OF South
Mountain, and two days afterWard won the
bloody field of Antietam, sgainet the same
enemy before whom they had been retresting
on Washington2
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had nothing whatever to do with Hkrper'e Fer.
~. He advised the Government nevertheless
what course ought to be pursued, but General
Halleck declined his advice, and Hsrper's Fer
ry was lost. It has been said he should have
relieved Harper's Ferry. After all his commu-
nicatons Herewith were cut of, on the l2ih,
he was authorized to take command OF that
place. Had his advice been pursued, there
would either have been no garrison there, or
they would have been securely posted on Mary
land Heights. Instead of this, 1t was In the
hands Of untruetworthy men, and all that he
could do was to send Franklin to fight his way
through Crampton's Pass and relieve the be-
leagured garrison. franklin did his work
bravely and WE'LL On the same day that Burn
side carried South Mountain, right gloriously
Franklin swept through the lower pass, drove
the enemy before him, and the next day,
while pressing down the valley to the relief Of
Harper's Ferry, learned of Its disgraceful sur
render by the cessation OF the cannon to which
he had been listening as to the voice of brave
comrades calling for aid but gallautIy maintain
ing their own against the foe. Il does not con-
Germ us now to say who was chargeable with
the loss Of Harpers Ferry. The President has
seen fit to remove the disgrace OF dismissal
from the officer who was inculpated. Ii is not
necessary to ask who at Washington was re-
sponsible for not taking McClellsn's advice at
first, and for subsequently keeping the position
out of General McClellan's control or orders
until the 18th, when he exerted every nerve to
save Il, and would have saved 1t but for the
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