Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-04-17
From the Nashua MI Telegraph.
Gen. S(OeughtOu.

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| Gen. StOughtOs,.
Some of our exchanges have INDUCED il
unkind insinuations in regard TO the lat,
capture of this officer by capt Moseby o
Stuart's cavalry. Some have even mad,
merry at his misfortune. That some let
tiers have been written on the subject b,
officers who saw in Lin only successful
rival and were glad to have him thus pu
out of the way, we have no doubt, for tha
spirit is too common in our army. Ii doe:
not appear from any official statement o.
facts that has yet come to Ii. hit, that he
was not acting according to orders in having
his headquarters at Fairfax Court House.
1t is alleged against him that he was
caught mapping at two o'clock in the night
hut this is not so strange thing after all
for even military men require two or three
hours sleep out of the twenty four. II
may be true that he did not take all the
precautions necessary under the circum-
stances, but we should imagine that it was
more the fault of the guard than of the
General. Yet even it were true that he
failed to exercise sufficient caution in this
one instance. it does not follow that he
should be forever disgraced and dishonored.
On the same night, Gen. Wyndham escaped
OILY by being still further from his com
mand. he being at Washington. Our rea
ders doubtless recolect how the brave Gen.
McCook was assasinated in Northern Mis-
e''s'prf 1as' suuhnnvr, when Ire neea,o-sl,
exposed himself away from his command,
yet nobody thought of ridiculing that brave
officer.
Now we know firm personal observation
that General Stoughton is brave and
chivaric officer. In drilling and diseiplin-
ing his command he had few equals. He
could manage battalion or brigade in field
evolutlons with as much ease and prompti.
tnde as good company commander would
his company, Throughout the whole Pc
nlnsular campaign he was always TO be
found where danger was thickest, and he
gained high encomiums for his impetuous
Caring, while the regiment he commandef
acquired an enviabIe reputation. At the
affair OF Lees Mills when four Of his com
pa"ies were ordered TO charge on the enc
my's works he did not send them. as some
OF The other regimental commanders did
but led them himself in person. And IN
leaving the f,li he was among the last,
bearing off in his arms, and without assis-
lance, poor fellow OF our own company
who was disabled by piece of shell. In
the face of snch facts the censure or the
merrimett of those who stay at home seems
TO US TO be i'll timed to say the least.
In regard to the charge of improper in
timacy with Miss Ford, Col. Veazey pro-
nounces the whole story villainous SANDER.
and Lieut.. Col. Cummings of the 9th VT.
and editor of the Bratlleboro Picnic. writes
to his paper as follows -
The recent cavalry raid under capt Nose
by resulting in the capturing of General
Sioughton, excies no little comment in liz
newspapers, much of which is as uniust as
It Is cruel. No intelligent officer or soldier
here who had any opportunities for observ-
ing the conduct of the General for ono M
ment believes that he had any im,ronar |
with Miss Antonio J. Ford ar
with any other lady. MIR. Ford. at whose
house he had his quarters, is ore of the
most respectable men in this section of
virginia, batting his secession precliyit;es
with which nearly all the inhabitants ora
strongly iinctured. and his daughter has
enjoyed as good reputation for
nodesty and virtue as any lady could de- |
sire. 1t is very likely that she held an ..bon-
orary commission" fiom Gen. Stuart o,bor
ladies' have received similar fayors fro,,
me same source; but no one attaches INV
.iher than apoliiical Specification to sncL
documents. Gen. Stoughton lived ent;ralv
lsoiat' d from MIR. Ford's family; he tool
MS meals with his mess in another bopsa
una since the 2o'h OF January has occupied
inner quarters in another and som, wba,
Instant house. When his mother and ~
ers came out TO visit him they took rooms
u Mr. ford's and it is hardly credible tha,
hey would have been provided with QUAR-
ers ~ mouse not under the control, if oc-
uPied at all, OF respectable family. The
liair IS unfortunate enough in all its asperts
'i,Eout any malicious or tloughtless scan
al TO color and disto.t Il,