The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-10-07
to the Election early
EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT.

revelation. Were the article auony
nous we should not copy it, but is
signed by n well known citizen of
Philadelphia In printing the scate.
ment the Philadelphia Gazette SAYS
Emile Boiler was for some time i'm
the service of the L. S. War Depart
ment. He is no empty talker, there
fore what he says he derived from the
sources mentioned in his letter, and
that these things are universally as.
serted and believed at the South
there is abundant concurrent testi.
mony:
MR. BoURLIER's STATEMENT.
GENTLEMEN Il am in possession
of your note TO which you ask me if
| remember having made certain as
sertions at the rooms of the Union
National Club inJauuary last, on my
return from the febel lines, in regard
TO Gen. George b. Mcclellan and
Clement L. Vall,ndigham, and desi
ring to know if ! could reiterate said
statement.
I recollect perfectly well having
made certain statements in regard to
the two persons named, and in pres
ence of several numbers of the Club
In response to your inquiry II
would repeat said statement, ] will
answer you by saying: First-That
while the battle before Richmond,
Virginia, in 1862, vas still progress
sing, and Immediately after General
Mcclellan had fallen back from be-
fore that city, in company will. n
friend, an officer in the rebel service,
who was prevented from joining his
command in the fight in question on
account Of wound received at the
battle of Seven Pines, and being pro-
vided with a special permit from the
War Department at Richmond, | Wis
tied the fortiiications around Rich
monl, and advanced to about two
miles north of that city, where we
met Col Gayle OF the 18th Alabama
! (rehrl) regiment, who was n parti2u-
lar friend of the ofliccrin whose com
pany I was also Lieut., Col. Pickens,
OF the came regiment. with whom |
had the advantage OF n personal ac-
quaintance. The Colonel was super
Intending the disintermcnt of mum
Der of cases of L. 5. rifles, which
lay buried in the ground, inrows,
the soil heapcd over them rs If they
were graves. Four of the cases OF
rifles were already unburied when |
reached the spot, and / had the Go
me pleasant) satisfaction Of handling
some OF those guns, which had al
ready been taken out of the cases.
| heard Col. Gayle say that the in
terment of those guns was known at
the War Department (rebel) even be-
fore McClellan's retreat flom before
that city.
/ On the inquiry Of my friend and
DR.. Kelley, of the rebel army, from
Col. Gayle, if he thought it bud been
intended that said guns should fall
into the hands of the Contelerates
the Colonel answered in the arirma
tive, and concluded by saying Mac
all right
Not more than a hundved yard:
distant from this spot, Lieut. Colone
Pickens pointed out to me number
of ambulance-two hundred and tcl
in number-and said he had assisted
at the capture, and that when captur
ed the horses belonging to ambulan
ces were hitched, SOME to trees an,
some to the lear of the ambulenccs
As / was then in the employ of tn
United States, it was my business t.
gather as much information in reear,
to military matters as possible, am
on my inquiry of Col. Plckens if Ii
thought these ambulences had bee
intended to be in the same bargain
as the rifles, he said : 81 don't Sc
what else they should have been inteu
ded for, for they were just where yo
see them, and the horses hitched q
, you see them, while the fight was &C
ing on right here"
Presently some whiskey was haGd
ed round, and we all drank n toast t
"Littlc Mae"
About the month Of April of tn
same year, as | was going from Rich
mond to Mobile, in company wit
Lieut.. Wilt, and DR.. Knocd, @
Missouri, and DR.. Fontlerv, of Vii
ginia--the two latter gentlem Ell be
ing of the rebel General Prices sta
we met with Brigadier Gencro
Watson, Of Alabama. Gen. Watson
said in my presence that then, or &
any time after the war, he could Civ
satisfactory proof that George l
Mcclellan, of the Federal army, ;
the outbreak of the rebellion and dr
4 ring the preliminary arrangement
Tor organization of the conicderat
army had offered his services to til
, confederate government but that q
the confederate government had RI
solved to give rank in preference to o
ficers formerly in the United State
service according to seniority of ran
they could not give to Mcclellan wh'
, he desired, as other officers ranke
him in seniority; and that McClella
having become offended Mt this, the
offered his services to the Unite
Q States.
In December, 1862, l had occasio
I, to call on Governor Shorter, Of Ali
o bama, who was then sojourning ;