The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-08
CHAMBERsBURG-M LESSON
AN APPEAL.

Blsjor General Stoneman, commanding a
"a sion Of our cavalry, three thousand strong,
recently despatched by General Sherman
y, "a bis camp before Atlanta, on a raid to the
portsnt city of Macon, some eighty or ninety
kines enthusiastically. very near tue centre of
4he Stlte, and not far from Miedgeyille, its
cal ital. The Rebels report that they have de-
issifd and captured Gescral Stoneman, with five
4hundsrd OF his men. This appears to be false,
a fas 20 General Stoncman's capture is con.
esneas bat, whatever doubt may exist rs to hin,
.hore is mac at all as to MacOn-it is not taken.
al the Rebel hFmy was in and about Atlanta;
and q al rs ranks the country had been swept
of abIc-boded whites under Il cOnscription so
ruthlces and searching that an AabImitn
9uainuy said FIT takes all that haven't been
deac over two DAYS" Yet General Stoneman was
9luprtd md hurled back by hastily gathered
s14.isia. iOice--that IL, by boys, old men, and
che very few men Of military ago whom the Rebel
authorities had excused from serving Ia the field
under the presumption that they could be more
useful elsewhere.
Now We do not cherish a high opinion Of Gene
raj Stonemans ability and energy hut this re-
pulse proves nothing against him. For infantry,
well led, can always, II they are resolite, stop
wooded and uneven as all our States south OF tue
Ohio are known ~ he. On the vast prairlos aud
plains of the great West IL might he otherwl o;
bus in any balf-wcoded rtgion, ,abounding In hills,
"
with The efonnd and hahting on the defensive,
=, &C. as4sat and repel more than their number Of
aao ,5Asy cavalry, THE rudest trench and breRss-
~ 4 VII compel The troopers 70 halt, dism Dunt,
10, .i" IA lbeTec on foot; and sAis process may re-
'he 0Ii M ~ petition every mile or two.
oe Inh czen trees skilfully felled form an a6atis
no cavalry can charge clears Il must be
MN III and toilsomely removed, or the provision
% SS,II ~ hmunition wagons are brought to u dead
SPHIIs, In short, the rawest infantry militia, II
n Thor T, Commanded and plucky, are an oVermatch
d;Tec,; eir number Of veteran horsenen under such
ul,N' .T instances.
llcam mpare now the successful defense of Macon
siNr the surrender and destruction Of Cham
.ror burg without one shot fired in IFS defense
Sa22, Sa2 Judge whether this 10 the sort of warfare
Tbulated TO put down great and desperate
al H. ~ presume that the people of Chambersburq
= neither better nor worse than those Of York
.n Gettysburg, or any other Of the county towns
Sne 1, the Pennsylvania border would have DONE
Wiley did just nothing. The others, we suppose,
Iuld have done exactly that. Our point q moi
,owt they are sinners above others, but that the
loIl must be prosecuted and upheld In a very
Serent spirit from that evinced In the non-resst-
n,o5see of Chambersburg, or il can have but one
nv .ult and that . bad one.
a,o ohambersburg was alarge and thrifty borough,
H. capital Of the wealthy and Populous county
Vs franklin--a county having ~, ,l28 Inhabitants,
lanS casting last year 1856 votes. We esslma:e
and there were 5000 able-bOdied men within
i've miles OF Chambersburg when McCausland
Cireered that borough unopposed, and burned is
Gpout shadow Of excuse. (rhe Copperhead
the MS which assert that the Union armies have
fullv towns under similar circumstances simply
of .here u no other word that does them Justice
bis Union General ever ordered the firing OF q
Whe II "oroagn wherein he had encountered no