The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-10-19

men from Annapolis; and then, unless the
batteries on the Potomac, which you assure
me will necessarily bs abandoned, are with
drawn or sllenced, | shall reserve my au,
thority 10 emtark other troops He then
said, Il have deteImin 10 divide General
Mcclellan army into four corps, and |
shall appoint the commanders of them. -
! And Afterwards he promoted the four off
GERS who had opposed Gen. Mcclellan s
campaign, three Of whom be appointed to
the command of corps, and, with the ex-
ception Of Generals Franklin and Smith,
who have been the subjects of constant an
noyance and indgnities since, the others
have all been dismissed from the army.
The PenlnSular campaign was proposed
by General Mcclellan, whilst Commander
/ in-Chief Of the earmieS of the United States,
and was intended to lie made with the forces
then under his command in Eastern Virgin
ia, estimated at over two hundred thousand
men. 1t was so accepted 10y the President,
aud the movement was commenced upon
that ba,ls. General Mcclellan had scarce
ly left Washington to take the field when
the Secretary of War relieved him of all
the armies not under his General McClcl-
lau'sl immediate command and assumed
command Of them himself. The troops
left in Northeastern Virginia We're placed
under command of Mcdowell. Banks, Ere.
mont and Sirel, each being independent OF
the other. and of General Mcclellan, and
all subject to the order of Mr.. Stanton. -
Whilst the above division of our army was
taking I lace the COnftdcra,es concentrated
theirs until, on the Goth day Of June, Gen
eral Mcclellan found himself before Rich
mond with cighty-five thousand men lin
Gliding Mccall diyision) and was attacked
by the concentrated Confederate force of
one hundred and sevcnty-fve thousand at
the very moment when Mcdowell, under
protest, withdrew his assistance from Me
/ Clellan, by the orders of the President and
Secretary OF War
The campaign under General Grant did
not commence until the 4th Of May, 1864
That of Charlottesville, in which the cas-
ualtlcs OF that army were estimated at thir-
ty thousand men, and which but for the
Proyidential killing of Stonewall jackson
would have been annihiatcd, was planned
by the President and General Hooker, or to
use the President 5 own words, ''hy Joe
and !, y Of which the Secretary Of War and
General Eallcc!. were kept profoundly ig-
norant, and was not commenced until May
., 1863, whilst that of the Peninsula, fol
the deity Of which General Mcclellan was
so much ccnsured, was commenced on the
18th of March, 1862, forty days in advance
of either Of the others
Why this bitter enn ity and persecution
| Of General Mcclellan, why in the begin,
ming Of March was the President pressed tc
death to remove him, even before he had
made his first trial in command of the Army
Of the Potomac? Why did distinguished
member OF the Senate, on the l7th OF
March, write to me: The cry against Nc.
made to crush him. What possible chance
had General Mcclellan to succeed when his
own GScInment did everything i'll then
power to cmharass his movements and break
him down? One would think his task sutii.
cieutIy onerous, laborlous and responsible
! when, without experience, after the first
/ disastrous rout at Bull Run, he re-organizcC
| the armies of the United States, and Wa:
preparing to fight them, without the addi
| tional conviction being forced upon him al
every step, that his own Government were
| determined ito crush him.
| Judge You and J. met within ten days af
| ter the dreadful battles before Richmond. --
| You attacked General Mcclellan with &
| bitterness and feeling that i'll becomes q
| Christian gentleman. ] then begged yor
| not to break down General Mcclellan until
| you had found better man, and challenged
YOU to name better General | now dt
the same thing, and appeal to the record O
the past thirty months, and to the rivers O.
blood that have flown since to sustain wha
| [ then asserted. refer you to the opinions
of foreign officer, and | assure you tina
among the old officers Of the army shall b.
! fully sustained.
The preference Of General Mcclellan fo
| the Ptninsular campaign and the condemna
! ton Of the Presidents plan have been fully
sustained The families and friends Of thu
one hundred and thirty thousand mon los
! south Of the Rapidan since the -th OF May
last proclaim it everywhere. Mr. Stanton
told the country at that time he had Il hun
| drcd thousand more men than he wanted
and now he tells you he wants IL hundred
! thousand more men.
| General Grant crossed the Raipitlan p
| with an army variou3!y estimated
| from IlSO0O to 120, ,00
lie afterwards added Buffers I0,00t
| He was reinforced 5000
Making exclusive of Sigels COO 205,00
On the lst of September our forces wer,
estimated, exclusive Of Sheridan $4,000
at $4,000.
General Lee had on the Rapidan, after
| he had concentrated his army. 5000
/ Beauregard joined him at Richmond
| witch his forces from the South,
which, with those near Petersburg,
| amounted to 80. OOC
! prari. In1.i(lr,, hrOuuht 10 tlO(
! And Lee was reinforced probably 1910
| Making in all 155,G coo
On the Ist Of September his forces were
estimated at Richmond at 45. 900, exclusiv,
of Early's command, 80, ,00O-showing thu
discharges and loss from Grant to be l50, ,0OC
and that Of Lee TO be S5, 900
Judge Kelly, were the records Of The
council Of war; and that Of the strict course
Of examination made by Mr. Stanton, in
dicating the very difficulties and dreadful
| losses General Grant has lately sustained
ever placed before him? And why not?-
And who is responsible for the one hundred
thousand men unnecessarily and wickedh
sacrificed south Of the Rap!dan, in the cX
pertinent made to prove that General Nc
! Iiellan and the council of war were wrong
and that the Presidents plan was right
The army Of the United States, as yol
found it at the commencement of this war
was composed OF "a heightened, intelligent
honorable, gallant set Of men, fully equal t.
the contest before them. They had Away
audiously avoided all political connections
many of them had been thirty years in thu
service of their country and had never voted
| They held their country and the honor ant
integrity Of it before every other considera
ton. Had rule been adopted rcquiIin;
that no political subject should be introduc
ed into the army, but that all political right
should be respected, aud had army officer
only been held responsible for the conduc
Of war, it would have terminated long ago
Why have Mcclellan, and Sedgwick, AM
Mcpherson, and Bayard, and Franklin, anc
Buell., and Meade, and Averill, and Potter
| and a score of other general officers Will