St. Mary's gazette., 1863-12-10
GENERAL MILLS caED.

As several erroueous statements have
been nlasie IN regsrdtto uiy being relieved
from, duty s!tA the Array u; Tanmcssee
il canuot he i.n or"ri.,r to give toe facts III
the Case Whea iae nr1rr relieving ne
was r-c@srd called upA,h Ajeueral Bragg
aud ak P,i the eau<.' "a! i. lie said :has
he had no cause ii r-'I FisiH, against nae
IN To lac close cf ghn sait,, on the .1t.i
Of September; ,h>t u" inp4tations ha.:
u.litalr chsln"trr. sud That hc woui.
! promptly r"tuk' any uut- uisaing hich H.
F.! his yres~nrc / ;heu asked ,oist c0u.t.
4; be, tn. rsssou for nis act,ou. tie 5llece,;
as the cause an eAngss.l"n II oniriou o,.
my part | inquired wiy I alone was
! held responsible f>r this uttcg.ure wheli
the or her three enrps eats.nnudrrs (Is,ng
street. Bnckn-r "ui theasa~n'j had con
curreti in it. II ,L.s III satisfactory III.
! -wer WAS giv'n.
! The i,..i,luatI,n iaadc ~ come Of ~,
army cori~sloisi-cts, IT my h,'inc .rrd '
| in .stucksag ot. !he murE, 'ng a. the 20 Il
iSepte1!oer. ;= usjayt I'se frs, in!ima,
,ion shat received that we wcrr to be
J The aSsaiants we- Al 4Eirr tv airapc.
! from the "ius curusa,l-r [(fanerai
! Polk(, receiv-a AT t%eu:y- Eve inmate,
past s4veu A NJ. And the first hem {,
If the cnntrm9insrd ntisch 1T ds ylikht :Tas
| froa. general bragg himSelf snne ha!f ar
| hour Iar-r Tao f,ur essen,iai prrpara-
,ious for hattie had ne, hrcu made ~
: 4 II I'D =, .,.,,,ll ..
,.a,ie. wi,hnu, The presence OF the Cow-
mara~r-in Chief. who th.n appeared vu
the field.
Lieutenant General i-ougs,rec. has since
! told ms ;ha, b. Was So far from being
resdy Mt daylight that he VAS not even
ready when hegan the attack. My i'm
preston Is tha. my corps was engaged
more than IN hour beiure trigger wa.
drawn by any other troops. I" the
| tirrceur>s of the assault by this heroic
corps the Yankees ascrite their Ioas>iu z
on our right. If an mt greatly mista-
ken, we had gained the Chattanooga road
turned the Yankes works. and neoliy
/ reached the kslIy house before the left
! wing came into action. The Yankees
I concentrated ,heie forces rapidly TO regain
the key poin, of sAer position. Grner-
ais Helm and Drlcher were killed, and
| General Adams WAS wounded and cap
tured hy the over~helsing masses thrown
sgainst my single cnrps. General Adams
! told me that the Yankees. in csnrersa-
ton with him. sscrihed the loss of the
battle to their withdrawing too many
troops froa their right to mcet this
morning attack of my heroic men on ,hcir
lef,. It weuld seem that the delay in at
,acking On oer left led them to believe
l,ha, cur forces were massed ON our right
| All the Yankee accounts of the battle
; agree in this visw OF Uur pan OF attack.
F.. heard no firing on our left until after
the fine ,rnops Of Walker ard Liddcll bad
come 70 nu- support
! The charge # sardinsss being disposed
of. it may be well TO quite to the sclf-eon-
, sritn,ed critics the following extract FROM
the letter of the Adju,anr.Genersl i'm re-
fcsal of ny application fur court of in
auiry: 'Insced, with an officer ct y"ur
past service and approved gsllantry. mill
iary delinquency is presumption not to
be indulged by any ore. ana certainly net
! in the absenoe Of all charge nr onuapla,nt
sanctioned BY the Dspa,tneut
F d. II. HILL.
1.icntpns,t General.