Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-10-13

rv. M that tino. he had "A hundred thnus,nI
men ,pnrr tban no wnntod and now bo t,Ils
Won he w,nts a bundred thonsnni moro
men.
Gen qrop, cros,o, ,,,, pod,J,, with m
army variousiy cstimatcd ut from one
1rn rnuHnred aitnrSa&rnid &nd eighty ,Gy 0l
lie was reinforced 5000
,,,is,,,, 49,,
On tho ist OF scptcm5egE our gycS we've cs
tim9tcd, exclusive Of sheridan $4,000 ut 5000
c"nnt@ratcd @ III bii 'nS rMHapd"n after lac had ooo
Bygurem ard Joined him at {icGinomd with
ihSs ,'rSS near i5% th5 south, which with
Rrcckcuridgc 'olS SYS
And Lee was reinforced ptohably .......,.,.4SoooC
Making in i65 NM
on t,a lst OF scpiomber his forces were
s,ini1tGI ~ 5iEnm9nd, 0
Showing and loss from Grant
to
'-'''' y, Ice 10 ''''','''''''''''''''',,'''V'O
JuGEc Nelley, were the records OF the
council or war; and that OF the strict
course ot examination made by Mr.. stan,
ton' inllGatihg the very dlihcuItleS ana
ureaul''l losses General Grant has lately
sustained, ever placed before hlmI Aud
WY WY d mot Anu VINO Is Responsible ior the
iou,.1uo men unheccSIarily, ana wlrkedly
pertinent made to prove that General Nc.
Clellan and the council of war were wrong.
and that the President plan was ripht 81
The army of the United States. rs Won faund
it at the commencement of this war. was
composcd of n biph-toncd bonorabIe cal
uolIan4 ent of MOI, f,ll,, o,,,,j T., IL, o.,
test before them; they had always stndions-
lyavoded all political connections. many Of
them had been thirty vcors in tbr srrvicc nj
their country. and had nnvor votod Thoy
held their country and the honor and intenri.
tvofitaboyc cverv othcrcon.ilnrotinn' Had
a rule been adopfcd recurring that M nnliti.
cal subject should be introduced into the or.
my but that all political rights should be
respected, and had army officers only been
held responsible for the conduct of the war.
it would have terminated long ago. Why
have Mcclellan, and Scdgwick, and Nc
Meade, and Avcrill and Porter. and a
drcds. if not thousands, of officers of in
fciior grade been offended and held back
aud many of them dismissed from the army.
without Il word of explanation: an arbitrary
act unknown in Great Britain, while Poun.
and Burnside. and Hooker. and Butler. and
Hunter, and Banks. and Sjgel and Sick les,
and hundreds of Others, certainly no better
than the former. have been nretgred p.
" hy was Gen. Stone. than whom there IS
no more loyal man. and an ACCOMPLISHED
gentleman, and soldier in the country, con
fined in pri.on for eighteen months +? And
when released by am act of Congress, whv
was it that neither the President. nor
Secretary of War, Secretary of State, or
other persons at Washington would assent
to any knowledge or any participation in the
arrest? Such c-ltrages are calculated to
break the power and esDyjt dl coylls of onv
army, and all have looked on with di>gurt
and horror and pain ar the shameful inius-
ticc and outrages that have benn continual
" hpapcd upon 40 many of their old friends
and comrades in arms, whom thcv know
incapable Of an ungcntlenanlv. disbonora.
bic, un odicrly. ordi,loyala act. WHY did the
Committee on. tbe Conduct of the War in
v,,tigate and iat~iG. with such nice prpci-
sion the conduct Of NJ Clellan and his
friends, and overlook the volumes of charr
es filed in the War Department against Ere
mont and Sigcl and Hunter and Others, and
entirely overlook the immense saughter Mt
Chanccllorsyille. and Frederick,buTr and
south Of the Rapidan? WHY did secret
political inquisltlon, with no other prctcXt
ambition, sit over five hundred days and