Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-06-07
MORNING LEADER.
Brass showa Up.--TedernI Omcsrs in

BFaGE shSwa Up.--Federnl Officers In
Libby Prison.
a debate in the Rebel House Of Repre-
sentatives on Thursday last, On PROPOSE.
tion to e Z the sslery Of General Bragg
drew forth bitter denunciation Of him
from Mr.. Orr, Of South Carolina, who said
il this bill passed General Bragg would
get more pay, by several thousand dollars
year, than General Lee, taking into the
estimates the oommutstion Of quarters,
SC.
He was credibly informed that even
Lieutenant Colonels On duty in Richmond
got, in the matter OF combinations, SO g.,
ss much pay as General Lee. He thoug ht
il wrong that General on duty in the
city should receive more pay than Gene,
! raj exposed 10 the hsr6ships and dangers
Of the field.
But be had much more serious objections
to this bill than the matter Of pay. He did
not believe there was any necessity for
the ofice flleI by his General. After the
military disasters Of 1862, the President
finding that he could not personally at
tend to and msnsge the Affairs of the
Generals Of sll cur armies, had this tffi se
created and put General Lee into it.
Gen. Lee filed it for two months, when,
Gen. Johnson being wounded at Seven
Pines, ne was called to the field. The Of
fee then became vacant and remained SO
until Gen Bragg, having become complete
ly played out OF Missionary Ridge, was
floating about, no army being willing 10
receive him, when he was brought here and
put into the Office which had been SO we'll
and Worthily led by Gen. Lee.
Mr.. Orr reviewed the Kentucky campaign
down to the battle Of Murfreesboro He
fought RoseUrans at tho lat.oF place, Ro5u.
Grams having very little superior force;
and it Was believed ought to have whipped
the enemy If his (Bragg's) troops had been
properly handled. The next day he (Brsgg)
sent out Breckenridge and had his troops
cut TO pieces, and thtn attempted to make
6 scspegoat Of him. He Bragg then al
lowed himself to be msn@vered OF of
Knoxville and Chattanooga. It Ess true
be (Brsgg) fought the battle Of ChicksmRu-
ga, which ended in a victory wbish was
not followed up; but he Mr.. ORR believed
that for this victory to him (Gen. Bragg)
no or dit was due.
The credit Of tbe victory Of Chieksmau.
ga was due to Generals L3ngstreet, D. H.
AAAAif HAu DtADAEl VIII All VI nugui 0cutIbl
Bragg had quarrelled. When he had quar-
relied with these generals and they had
left him with pet generals, he and they
were beaten in the next battle, and for she
first time in the war we hear Of the COW
ardiee Of our troops. II at Missionary
Ridg7 our troops scte1 with coWardice, it
was because they had been educated to it
by their generals, who had proved to them
on many hard fought fields, on which
they had done their duty fully and nebly,
that be WAS inoOmpe.en to lead them 10
violo y.
General Bragg was the first among our
generals, and to their credit be it said, the
last, who hsd our men led out and shot like
beeves, without court martial or form of
trial, But be Bragg vas a fsvOrite Of
the Psesident, who would hear nothing
against him. The excess Of this attach
ment Of the President to him was most re-
Il could be likentd to nothing |
bu. the Horbid affection OF mother for |
her deformed ehild-s mother who gloats
over and Caresses the hideous features and !
limbs Of her ofFrpring.