The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-10-29
THE FRIENDS OF GENERAL FREMONT.


4de ia heroic verse For a more brilliant and vastly
more important charge, General MeCLELLAS dismiss
eI the FHENoNr Body Guard from the service for the
reason that when they charged, hundred and fifty
against thousand, through storm af bullets by
which forty horses c the Erst fire, their battle
! cry was, "FRENoNr and the Union!' For this they
were degraded their trained and batte-tred horses
taken from them, for i long time refused pay and
rations, and dismissed from the service. ThinA OF
this for action whose briliancy shone out of
the di-hnnor OF Bull Rum and the disaster which had
Jus! before resulted from General McCLELLANs first
attempt a generaiship IN the fell at BalIs Bluff!
General FnEMoxr sought to relieve the Guard from
ths treatment by making personal request 70 Gen.
MCCLELLAS, follows
ST. Lorrs Nov. H. 1851.
lf,j,r-f, .seroY George b. HcctHaa, C51mou.ier-l-
Cdis,. Washington d. C.
would regard it as an Of personal courtesy and
kindness if you will order NV Body Guard 10
remain with me, subject 10 orders but my own. 1t
Is composed OF educated and intelligent Young men,
TO whom the country and more than the usual
consideration accorded to the rank and file of the
army Signed J. g FREAoSr.
Ntior-Gener.l {. :. \.
To this request he received the following reply:
HEADqu,rrER OF THE ARMY,
WASuIxgroS, Nov. IL, 1851
Hljo, GeaeyoJ j. 4. Fremont:
Before receiving your dispatch. had given ustruc
tions that the cavalry corps known yuur Body
Guard should be- otherwise disposed of. Official in
formation has reached TINS city that mtmhers OF that
;n ,tir ~ ,,,,,,7c in t r,ics of anhtfsl syIr
dlencv Witt every desire to crafty your wishes /
do not see how can violate every rls OF military
proprietv. Please reply.
GEo. -. MCCLELLAN.
Comma ander in Chief.
Expressed sentiments at Springfield which place
they entered by chargiu, upon two thousand Contei-
troops posted III field and wood in the Dor Cr
of the town recb3rpinr through their broken ranks
hand to hand f,t win Them nursunp them throuyl
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'le '""u' hAPresSeu sentiments !" i ''cVor'ous
batte-cry! And these sentiments were the battle-ery
at .FRroSr and the a. Mon -, Was not the ra,l Of
-. - C7.
iN' 'N '-, " =" ' "a ' '" ' '''i' /
that the Fremont Body-Guarl had won victory?
To this extraordinary request for a reply at the end
of a ,o o.;t;r, ,,f,s,l f;e,, Fpr,,,x-r r-,,liat.
"
ST LorIs. Nor. ~,
Ayor- 'crot George b. Het'!ai''. ''7ofno''ler-in
tAist, L. =. l..
am not informed of anv expression of sentiment
Ar ~rrirr tirI nv tba c,vaIrv known ,s my b,siv-
Guard which should Great. a doubt a. To- th, lien
cy of their remaining in the service of the country
while the contrary. the service rendered by the
naantry of their conduct on the 2jh of October at
Springfield Justly entities them to the favorable CON
sileraon Of the Government. In view of this fact,
request the commanding General tn reconsider the
case if anv severe measure has been directed az tnSt
them.
J. G. FRRMoNr,
Major General [. :. \.
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answer "'9 W 'o"'' y, '''l - '.''9 i vas 1i
act 't h'ahhrNS "Hch could be done by "Eok'E b.
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eh'! OF an llhoe''ie-
The SAM spirit was exhibited IN his letter Of in
strnctions to Gen. HALLEeS' which WAS dated the
same day IS gwen III ms report
GENERA In assigning you to the comm and of
the pgpArtnh.nt "I the Missouri, II l.. proGa.y un-
az ,t;p M ;,S - -. IIto,,at ,t ,'G i;.i@n
Yen have not merely the ordinary duties of
military e'mm'nter to perform but the lar more diih-
bii tl ,ri,y T ,s rror ~ , , -
the Department and Of reducing to A point Of econo-
nv consistent win te ana ntiFts s % lIe
bIr' In5e,rj Of t,fers in the history Of the world
you win dni in your department many general
ana elan otcers holilI Lr+.1i 9 9iu,ls'lI Ii 'iii
dent or Secretary Of War: YOU vii please at once in
form these gentlemen Of tha nulty Of their appoint
hentS ana see iat no pay or allowances o any kill
,Iv e atbrIi m t P..,iart a. Of
War. Ii anv give you the slightcs. trouble arrest
them and send them under quart cut OF the limits o;
80 III ~ IL, =; - c,rf,ar,ar S6, Ill
please examine INTO the legality of the organization Of
the troops sarEing in Tie Department When You .
mug mug @ a3 niesa n19s', 3 OF, 90 'lar'p @ r'',s
enter the Legal military establishment anisr general
as ami ortGrs ct the War p'Partntnt' reporting m
"a 10 NAV I'm"
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eFn>" the sp'F't Oh M army ING ''@'9 NH'c" "-S
10 he reineei II 'risE was iAe hiIreA Q, FREMONT
army against the enemy "iiea 70 TN '' LEI -