The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-19
LILLE. TENNESSEE TUESDAY. JANUAFsY 1o 1864

cents per pound" In regard to our lit
erary effusiOns, We do not consider
Mr.. 0gertOn rational enough to be an
impartial judge of their merits, as be is
"impulsive," and has = "gObbling up"
way Of disPosing Of matters Of fact.
We prefer to have their merit tested By
the public, who, as = general thing, know
how TO appreciate the breathiDgs Of one
whose purpose is, in the main, to sift the
grain from the chat, and give honor to
whom honor is due. OF Mr.. Ogtrton we
know nothing personally, nor do we care
TO know. We do not make it our business
to play spy, and sneak around a camp,
or send q miniOn to do so, for the purpose
of obtaining the status Of any one. We
know that obedience is the FIRST requisite
of q good soldier, and, knowing our duty,
we eEdeavor to cOnfne ourselves to Ola
business. which is certainly none Cf Over
toms business. lie may be black, green,
or yellow, for all we know to the con-
trary and, indeed, we would not walk
twenty steps to ascertain. This much
we do know, that any man who would
endeavOr TO justify himself at the ex-
pense of others, is very, Every small
pOtstOesF'
Inregard to his Leviathan" question
about Jonah swallowing the whale, or
rather, "the whale that swallowed him."
Well, as he (0VertOn,) appeared very
wrathy, foamed at us for giving Gen.
Johnson's Division any credit in the as
sauIt upon Lookout Mountain, we pre-
Bume that the brave soldiers of the 1st.
Brigade, 1st Division, 14th A. c., can
more accurately describe than we said
feeling he speaks Of, and we most cheer
fully hand him over to their tender cor
sideration, in this particular.
AS to the facts of the case of Gen.
Baird's Division being "taksn in" By
allowing the forces under Gen. Weed
to drag the guns and csissOns" captured
by Gen. Baird's Division from them
under the pretense of placing them in
position to defend q certain point" we
are totally ignorant, and request Mr.
OvertOn to "prOve" the same from 'g6ieial
records" as he says he can do. And we
will here remark that zoe did not say that
we had any contention with the 1st
Brigade of the 81 Division, commanded
by Gen. Turchin." And we will further
remark, that we have nothing to retraet
in any portion of our statement of the
part performed by Gen. Hazen's Brig ade,
ard Gen. Woods Division, in the late
storming of Missionary Ridge.
Now, IS Geo. j. A. 0vertOn, 2dd Brig
ade, Sd Division, 14th A. c., is generous
souled kind of fellow, will he not be
80 kind as to give the public full &C.
count of the manner in which that por-
ton of the army to whiehhe is attached
took the 'one- sixth" of Missionary
Ridge? We respectfully await the
graphic and accurate description which
we feel confident that he can give, "frOnt-
face, maH fashion" But we advise him
10 wait until his mind gets rightly
settled, else he cannot do justice to his
subject, nor do the estate some service"
In the meantime he can be rubbing up
his gun, for if it is no brighter than bis
mental stamina, it want pass inspection!
An! OvertOn, you will immortalize your
self before the public if you only per-
severe in your itinerant vocation Of
censorship, and that without being
"smoked out"
w. S. GAFFNEY,
YOung Soldier,