Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-10-08
THE Army MovEs-TuE euAK n GUNS.


matters as wish I could. All The hll
and into January, our army lay idle a d
every one remembers what magpiiceot
weather we were having, Spring was ap-
p oachipg aud still there were n, sign
ihs, The army would move, and Mcclellan
still sal hat It wouldn't do 10. .advonce
AT last Senator Chandler and went to
President Lincoln and urged the necessity
of being pressed forward Aud lie said !:
1t shall move joThen Mcclellan summon
cd a cpuncil Of war of bis leading genera Is,
aud SO manipulated and managed it, tha'
eight out of twelve of them expressed ihr
opinion that it would beldaogerous aud DIS
astrons to, 20 over the river. But, Mr.
Lincoln overfaled the council Of war. and
under bis explicit mandates.B Mcclellan
moved across the river to attack the enemy.
sHeimoved growing allJbe way Heap.
preached, with fear and trembling those
feriificariohs stronger than SebastopolA
And there he fonbd nothing. but pain ed
wooden guns, and Qualifications so slender
that! they never could have borne tne
weight of siege guns, and never did Tiny
were builtfor scare crows, and they wlre
enohgh 10 frghte6 AWAY the young Napole
oUg Laugher ]ns The Committee on the
Conduct or che War discovered this bhum.
bog even 'beiore Mcclellan did For while
the army was even sbeii marching upon
;Manassas,a a Mas sa chussetls man, endorsed
as worthy of belief by the Massachusetts
Cungre smen, came before that Committee
and todtbem hat the guns were all wood
EN-, aud that there wasn't rebel soldier at
Manassas, and hadn't been for Two weeks
We took him before the Cabinet aud they
couldn't believe him. But soon there came
another wi,ness--a man knownio you and
to sfame-Bsyafd ia yiof, and he de.
clnred thattbe guns were only quaker guns.
and that there were never any siege gun
there aud couldn'tabave been 3t So on5
army marched out there like the King oi
Fraace, with forty thousand men aud 10 a
big sorm they marched back again II
Laughter. ~ 5nft9'4 hes in'"G ~iul SION
Now Mcclellan wanted to try the PENN
sulaf route to Richmond But Mr.. Lin
coin saw that there was an important rebel
army lying near Washing on which mus,
be watched. He said to Mcclellan IT,
my Judgment the true line Of advance is
TO attack the rebel.army, meantime inter.
posing your army between the rebels and
aLd yon are, and if your council of war j.,
unan nous on this subject, sou ma take
your own route TO X eumond, il you vii
leave an a, my corps here To defend the capl
tai. | mention this because an aitenlpi
has been made TO dc eve The p ol le ab ~
the matter. Mr.. Lincoln only gave NJ,
Ciellan permission to 60 on condition oi
united recommendation of his council ol
! war Bat Mcclellan paid no attention t,
the condition. He never. called u counci
OF war on this subject. / believe that hsc
he doue So -four OF The commanders of corp
would have vo I'd tha t. The route. VIII C
Llucoln FIRST suggested, and Graut SO glor
ously carried out, [applause] was The bts
one.
THE PEsINsuLAR cANPAIoN--sIEGE OF yoRKTow,
In spite of this condition, McCella
, took his army and sailed away to York
town. How many men did he take ihe:ei
We have indubiiable testimony that h
took at least I20, 900 on the start. How
many rebels we're there 10 enc Hnnter him
We have the testimony..o' Mr.. Bowdoin. u
truthful man as ever lived, thea Sera Q
from that part Of W.. and since dead. ~
boarded ut the same table with Magrude
and the other rebel leaders at the time O
tue landing of Mcclellan, and Magrude
had no more idea that be ccuid stay ther
than in the internal regions. The rebe|
had not TO exceed nine thousand men,
This information come direct from the reb
leaders, who boarded with Mr. Bowdoi
Well, they were ell ready 10 run but the
waited awhile TO see what the Yunks woul
: do Aud when they saw Mcclellan G
D right into the bogs aud swamps and "gu
D ponds and go 10 work throwing up entrecl
+ neuts, they laughed aud waited louger.-
They kuew that the intermittent fever We
doing more havoc than they possibly conlt
! and so they waited for the siege-guns, -
And so for seven weeks our men stoo
up to their middes n mud inhaling tina
: ma alarious atmosphere and digging bitches
, and at last, just as Mcclellan got his sieg
I, guns up, the little rebel army quietly mo,
ed out Of, The way, add left YoktowI
Voice, He didn't know it ill SIX honl
! after 2 No, aud he never would hal
!, Known ii II he had been left 10 find it Q,
: for h,mself-he never vent near enougl
= (Applause) Hooker had begged ,agai
. aud again to attack the enemy. But n
McCiellsn was ais engineer. He uhGe
= stood siege He had seen q siege III, q
= C.imea. aud he was bound 10 have q sieg
II be had it in frog pond. ,,''~ 80 ="
y a 1.-THE BArfLE or wiLLrxIAxsDUsu. ois,
: Well, then came the battle Of William
y burg, Mcclellan Sasp't there. aud 10 lh
- ,plendldly,orgapised army there Was su'
:, disputigg about seniority and preceden
. aud right 10 command. aud thugs got
= mixed, that The battle was almost lo'
! So testify Hooker, Sumner and Kearpe
" Blu. we won The fight, aud even witho
- comma snder-inchlef, we fought them i
=, day, and whipped them as usual, for, Q
y boys will whip anything in the world
e properly led. (Applause.) But MeClell
~ was buck W Yorktown. aud the GeGer
~ sent back for him to bring order out Of e'
i, fussiou. General Sprague came back
a, him through mire up 10 his horses bel
70 He found him under o shed at YoFktow
=, bal he didn't want to come. for he '
y, afraid The rain would hurt his tIappiD