Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-27
GEN. GrLLMoRE.-As public attention

GEN. GILLMoRE.--As public attention
isno' entered upon the operations against
Charleston, The following statement in ref
erence to the commander of our land forces
ell 4, will be of interest, II tends to
sh him the Union cause has an
eng,. y, al genius OF high or
der. For the truthfulness of what is sta
ted of course we cannot vouch but what
he accomplished IN the reduction of Fort
Pulaski is well known, and the following,
which has at least the "air of truth, " shows
what obstacles he battered down, in ad-
dition to the walls of that fort:
"It is stated that Gen. Wright, for
three years chief of the engineer bureau at
Washington, after a careful survey pro
nounced most positively against the prac
ticability of an attack ON Fort Pulaski,
stating that there is not old iron enough
in America to take that fort Gen. Tot
ten, long the head of the entire engineer
corps, is reported to have said, You
might as we'll undertake to lombard the
Rocky Mountains from Tybee as Fort Pu-
laski.' Gen. Robert Il. Lee gave rebel
testimony to this same point The en-
emv may fill your fort with shot and she'll,
but they cannot bl each its wallis But
the incredulous Gilmore insisted on an
opportunity to drag some cannon miles
across floating marshes to little firm land
on which he proposed to plant them for
preaching battery, and by some strange
chance he was permitted to do so. The
world knows the effect on Fort Pulaski
and are now informed that ITS consequence
with the branch ofthe service to which
he was attached was to make Gen. GILL
more the best hated officer in the engineer
corps"
In regard to the army under his com
mand in the present work against Charles
ton, the dispatches have informed us sew
eral times that reinforcements were con
tinually arriving. The following from tn
Philadelphia Gazette will be of interest OIL
this polnt:
"We have been aware that Gen. Gill
more's army had been and is being yer!
heavily reinforced, bnt the washington
CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Times (cop
perhead) makes the number so great as t
surprise most persons. He says that tn
forces ordered to reinforce Gilmore vii
make his army larger than that wit
which Grant took Vicksburg, or McCle
Ian operated against Richmond. ls WI
be recoilected that just after the failure
Dupont's naval attack on Fort Sumter
we estimated the land army requslt
for the siege of Charleston at i5,UO
men.
We are glad to recognize this prom
action of the Government, and have I
doubt that in the cad it will result IN SUE
oass Reaurepard is hard a Wnnk Ill ! i
ING new Qualifications, and the large ada
tional forces sent to Gilmore will enab
him to prrfect the siege and attack tt
rebels at all points This is the first re-
attempt to take Charleston made in tn
war. and now that it has been undertake
in downright earnest, we are sure, iro
the determined character OF General Ha
leck and the unyieldlng perseverance
the Secretary of War, that they al
bent on the capture of the rebel e.
trepot. ,,..-.,
We should be pleased to hear that Il
naval squadron there had been reinforce
to the full extent that we are able. Dab
gren makes good use of all his vessels, an
knows how to mannuvre them with fir
rate naval skill. We have ample mea
of giving him more naval strength, al
we trust that it may be DONE"