The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-08-31
For the Ashland Union.
DOings of Sullivan War Com

m1ffee.
Eds. Union-Perhaps it will not b.
wholly embarrassing to the readers o.
your paper to know how admirably adapt
ed to the purpose of serving faithfully
our sadly afflicted country are come mem
bers of the Sullivan war committee. an6
to keep community posted with reference
TO their very highly creditable proceed
ings, and to advise the anxious where
u;h nobility may be found, is the object
Of this communication. We consider il
a duty we owe to the service and especial.
ly to the brave men responding to the
present call, to expose the corruptions OF
this lizard species of genius, and we hope
you will see fit to give publicity to the
following list of facts.
LIST. Instead of proceeding as honest
men should to secure men to apply on
the quota of Sullivan, some very valuable
time was spent in endeavoring to dcpre-
ciate and destroy the success of an indi-
vidual properly authorized to enlist men
for service, by every species of defdma-
tiion, and that too while pretending to en-
gage his services for the town Suisse
quently, and after a trip to Buffalo, with
varying fortunes and Indifferent success,
came the chairman of the committee, Gan
old man whose silver locks would natural
ly attract the respect due to gray hairs
and whose experience ought to have
taught him better), to Ashland to secure
the influence of the party thus injured BY
false p~retences, to hustle the men then
enlisted into camp and to the credit of
Sullivan, but a difficulty, the expenses
must be paid, SO this venerable specimen
of honorable dealing proposed to steal
enough out of the promised bounty to de
fray all expenses, and serve as a rcmune-
ration besides. Not succeeding in this,
he threatened to have them mustered and
accredited on his own responsibility
Warned not to do thus, he concluded to
pay "three dollars" per head and take the
men. Accordingly they were taken to
Wooster, mustered and sent to camp at
Columbus. This was unexpected to the
bows, and two of them entrusted their
bounty with the committee to take to
their friends, (they being minors), this
Resolve Rice, one OF the comn:i ttee prom
ised to do, and yet up TO this dale, SO it
is reported to me by the father of the
boys respectively, the committee for some
cause best known to themselves, refuse TO
deliver the bounty as agreed, they hold
ing receipts for the same.
End. This committee left u Office with
the assurance that they would pay as
premium as any other town, and we
the1eupon did not muster but held for
.sulIiysa number Of men which one
Geor& Philpot had without our knowl-
edge, taken to Wooster AID mustered
and credited, and then to shield himself
in this base transaction, attempted to
have assigned to another persons order,
and enlistment, thereby perpetrating a
upon a person who innocently sup
posed he was working with said commit
ce to fill their quota.
Lastly, when called upon by a person
certificates of enlistment and mus
.er by the Provost Marshal, the said Geo.
ohilpot, ere one word beyond the state
nent of the claim had been uttered, pro
seeded with an AK in hand to assault the
,erson making it, who as a matter of
curse, withdrew without n ungentie
manly expression, leaving the hostile and
Iishones; old villain to seek an equitable
djastment of his business elsewhere
it is due to MIR Philpot to re-
mark, that his conscience probably made
linn more than usually irritable, and we
eel conscientiously inclined to expose
UGH gray-haired villainy. Yet after all,
We ar, inclined to think that the whole
transaction is in keeping with his politics
nd no more than we might reasonably
xpect.
H. Fl. DUDLEY.
Ashland Auo %