, 1864-06-13
GEN. KAHWAHU.

"a avn "oeAs 1Eo %uo 1EHs LAWS papers,
with the New York g NorlF' at thu head,
ana the Chicago "atom' ii the tail, were
1sPressztlng that Grant wa4 Bounding sad
Frsadng like rampant lion, or an uptanea
colt, because that interm*dd1ing civilian,
6tsstenr Ma holding hin In, to prevent him
from appointing "the Grare-digger of thu
Chiokshominy" n his Chief OF Stat, OF Chief
EnGBoex, or chief cook and bottle washsr-
anything, 80 that Grant conlt only have the
advice aud counsel Of the great defeated"
and thaa the credit Of Grants lss. canpstens
be given to him, ~ mas that Of his nrat,
Alas. for the Cesperhsads! Why o1puot thu
DerA look affer his own sufficiently to givs
them sone little good luck! Since tho grand
advance Of ouF armies, not = single dess+:t has
boon youclssfed to sustain tAeir fplntips
hopes. It fl bad enough that our continued
victeriee should thus discourage them, for
& Hnpc deferred n1aketh ths heart alck,''
Amidst such adversely, II ssms Eoldea cali
could cHIy be set up, for them and the Army
OF the Potomac to worship. Il would be re-
ua. But Instead, the very maa who, Il
Chief Engineer Of the Army Of tho Potomac,
NcCie,An's grand tragic farce es positively
MA Aln1AVA4 AEA4I144 00A6AEAS oCy2Ns
Casey, Heintzlcman, Sedgwick, Wsol Wads~
worth, Hitchcock or Hnllsck, or indeed eny
other Of bis Ar1ny officers, for mona but
Frsaklin and Porter ever agreed with him IN
.aything, this Gsn. ]. G. Barnard, one Of ths
1o'y ablett mea in the e. =. army, aud who
il hstlast removed from McClellauism, IL
selocsa BY Grant for the position Of nj.
Chisi 1egineer
IL "asse who testified before the Commit
icc On Ne-ondpct Of tue war, that t&oas Of
lug l1ouaoet c41scs of ultimate failure" in
the Peninsula campaign, "was the inactlen
OF clght month from August, 1851, to April
1soa." In other lords, that McClsllan spoil
ed the army bJ ina*ion before he commenced
to use 1t. He declaAd that the army was as
complete In Novenbe. as 1t eycr BECAME:
condemns the plan Of Living bJ way Of the
Peninsula, as "perfsct, certain to eom,d
interference" by the War department He
xs6erts that the rebel 1Ins nt Yorktown
should have bsen assaulted, n.tead of sitting
down with los 900 men, to besive a row Of
earthworks defended BY {, 500 unts the enemy
had reinforced to e8, coo. BE ag.es with
Hooker, Kea1ney, Prince De Join,,,e. and
indeed The whole world, in condcznnilr the
manner in which Mcclellan caused Anall
fragments Of his army to bluader into Ma
hsttlb Of Williamsburg, and fight their va
throug b 1t without being reinforced, while
little dnndJ Nac WAS at Yorktown waiting
for It to stop raininE, SO that be could com.
ply with tbs repeated urgrut calls sent to,
him to come to the battle field, and willie
0,000 troops were within few hours' march.
BE aaJs that, j" alter leaving Williamsburg,
We should hare crossed the Chiekabomins =
and connected with the nary on the James, ~
and that Mcclellan, bJ bis failure to do 50,
~tlost essentially Ill that was worth going 30
far to gain, viz: the James River approach
. and the cooperation Of the Navy"
He further testi1es that "t#o weeks ought
hot to hnse been spent In traversing the forty
miles from Williamsburg to Botton'a
and New Bridge" sud that lad the rep1lsa
of the rebtls at Fair Oaks bean properly fol-
lowed up, Mcclellan con1d then snd there
have gone into Etohmond. OF this neglected
opportunity be says it Was one Of those COG
caslons which, ii not seized, do not repeat
themsclyes.' lie further shows that McClel-
ian's procrastfnation aud tim1d delays ena-
blcd the rebels to atcumuln1c the worry force
which defeAtcd him, and that, when finally
attacked by thla force at Gaines' Mills, our
army was go badly handled that, while some
seventy or eighty Thousand OF our troops
were kept " "amused' By tho rehsl outposts
sud picket firing, substantially their who1e
force Vas employ ed In Communicating" and
cruahing tHenty-seyen thousand Of ours.
We thus lost the battle and nine thousand
men, when, hhd our whole army been con-
ceatrated OF si1her side Of The Chickahom-
fuy, we 1uuEt hnyo won q victory and c.n