, 1863-05-01

TIE ECONDDCT OF THE WAR. !
More Of the CommittccsA Report
nThe EM he mebeis bci haVe HS NeWs % Of Cen. But
Ier,s Removal.
WASHINGTON, April n, 1868.
, Advance copies OF the three volumes of the
report and evidence taken before the Com
mitteo on the Conduct Of tho War, have just
been furnished to the various correspondents
Of the Press.
These volumes make In the aggregate, 1,9sS
large octave pages.
AThe first volume, bound, will be delivered
to the House to-day, and the remaining vol
umea in q short time.
Over fifteen working days have elapsed
since the copy WIS furnished to the supertn-
tcudent Of the Public Printing. ihis aaoeu
n The immense current work c1ee uted for all
the Departments, meantime, WILL give some
idea Of the facility with which work is per
formed in the Government Printing Office.
The third volume embraces testimony taken
upon the following subjects: Hatteras Inlet
Expedition, Port Royal Expedition, Burnside
Expedition, Fort Donelson, ETC., Capture Of
New Orleans, Invasion OF New Mexico, Acco-
mac Expedition, Battle Of Winchester, March
23d, 1862, Monitor and Mcrrimac, Protecting
Rebel Property, Rebel Barbarlties, Wounded
from Front Royal, Va; Convalescent Camp,
Alexandra, w.; Trade in Military Districts,
Communicating Countersigns, Returning
Slaves, etc.
Capt. Williams, Brigade Commlssary in Gen.
Blenke11s division, said, In answer to the
question as regards sobriety, SC:
IT think there must be In that division not
less than Is, and probably 4; many rs 25 estab.
liRhments where they sell liquor, lager beer
especially; and they Ill hare whisky that they
| sell privately at the Same stands. But lager
they deal out in great abundance. It is all
over the division. l do not think there IL Il
| tent in the division but what has more or less
| Of It. All the sut1grs keep it, aud all the
stands are crowded all the while.
think it safe to say that you can go there
t 500 men in that division who yon would say
| were unfit for dutr-drunk enough to put the
| whole division to flight On the field Of battle.
know Of no remedy in the world that you
can devise, except to cut off liquor from ofd-
GERS and all; or to break up the division,
separate the brigadcs, and put them In other
divisions with good commanders.
If you were TO separate them and put them
in other divisions with good commanders
good sober oficers-l think they Won1d make
good soldiers. The soldiers are all Germans.
do not think there are one hundred Ameri'
cams in the whole division"
The above are two Of the most remarkable
cases Of excessive drinking, but it would be
unfair to Judge, BY them, the morals Of tht
army. Since the testimony was taken, more
than year ago, the liquor supplies hare to
very considerable extent been abridged.
It appears by the testimony of Major Gen
Benjamin F. Butler, (Feb. 2, 1865 that clever
r days before Major Gen. N. ?. Banks left Nev
York, it vas known in New Orleans that th'
former was to be superseded by him, and
! bet Of "onc hundred to ten dollars" Wa
made In "Secesh Club Room u that within
twenty days Gen. Butler would be relieved b.
. Gen. Banks.
y Gen. Wcitzers scouts brought in the sam
news from the Tcchc, and "drunke
0 broker" whom Gen. Butler had put on Sui
/ Island for .'three months" and who Ea
, | served out his time there, came to Gen. Ship
: | lev, Us early as that day, and boasted Of til
!, fact Of 4'Geu. Butler being superseded b.
G Gen. Banks"
t Question BY the Committee to Gen Butle
i Have you any means OF knowing the caus
(: Of your removal?
- Al have no knowledge; haTo aske
) everybody lave seen in Washington what
t was removed for, and nobody has been able t
k tell me.
). Lieut.. Col. Frank s. ;Fiskc, of the I'd Ne
t Hampshire regiment, testified that he was IL
{ formed by a staff officer, about the Sth (
|. February, 1862, that the enemy had cried OF
g the counttrsign across the Potomac klEer b
II fore our pickets had received it: The con1
n tersign was stChippcway." This Was tt
If Day When the Pensecola was expected dow
l. The supposed reason given for it was that
TT might lave been taken from the te1csraE
le wire:
our division that the Pensacola wou}d con
ii | down that hight What the rebels cried O.
ID was, The Pensacola is coming down to.nigt
r, | isn't she's D-n her! we arc ready for he
IN VT have got your countersign- -Chlppe way.
0, The witness said he had no 0 her theory
&c which tn explain how the enemy obtained Il
ii | cnuntcrsign.
,e During the examination as to tho engae
y | mcnt lei Uccn the Monitor and the Mcrrima
s, Capt. &. Y. Fox, Assistant Secretary Of t
I'd Nary, having been asked the question.
j. did It ever occur to the Navy or War I
by pa1t1nents before the Aerrimac was prepare
lit 10 sec whether it was not well enough to ta
ne Norfolk, shipping and al:
n A.-Thc matter Of taking Norfolk has be
IT. talked over great deal. Tho movement
he Gen. Butler to take Newport News was in 7
i'd urence to the ultimate possession of Norfo
in The President, at that time, was very much
We favor Of 1t, and 1t was believed that it COL
have been done then without any difficulty
in ! think there is memorandum here from g.
IS, | Butler, dated some imo in the latter part
nd May, when he was down there, setting TO
'ps the feasibility Of capturing Norfolk.
IN. Q.-How came that to fall throughs
be A.-That could not say; the matter '
presented 10 Lieutenant General Scott; I I
,ril t.iyc you my impression about it.
en-. Q.-Do So, if you please!
us. Any impression is that the panic. in
md gard to Washington, that occurred after
oft battle Of Bull Run, blocked this cntcrpr
the as it seemed to block every other cnterpl
sed that vas proposed elsewhere.
ons Gen. Butler lad at one time got as high
Eas | II eco men down there, and they Wero {
er, sending troops to him until this panic Ii
all ! when they were all taken from him exc
md some 1900 or 5, ,OD men.
tof Q.-The ghost Of BnN Run WAS In the >
ant Ayes, Sir, and it also put off Dupo
the expedition for two or thres months.
hin could get no soldiers after that for any Of
r. expeditions.
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