The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-11-03
MoCLELLAN'S GUNBoAT EX
PERlENOE.
Some Direct Testimony from o.
tioers OF the Galena,

The Newark IN. j. Alv,rts s.r hss
the following:
The r,nowiug correspondence cx aius
it's l. ~ only Necessary to sa, that
D.. V,n Girs0n Is W u kluwn IN this
nv, and tue ript mrns made ~ this
lett have been ir qu. nifty repeated to
pers ns here;
NEWARK, Oc;.7.
"DEAR SIR, rem mb.r soon after
ylur rvtu here from III mes rivcb
VIII rc you tc'cd as Su gcUn ON the guu.
bout Ga!enn, hearing you state TIA q H.
eral N Clclinn was 49, h-'aTI .is-i"s h,n
retreat ot cur arny 10 III risoh's Land
inp, aud during the ia Of Glendale
aud M4vcrn Hill. Having # queniiy
heard rctutrd, take TIA liberty oi
writing 10 bcussu'rd.
"Y urS truly,
"a. VAN WISKLE.
at II u. Va Gi,srn, NJ. D., Eus ilsh.
town, Mbumouth county, \ }.
RrLY.
"EsausHrows, n. J. Oct. 10.
AMY DEAR SIR: Yours Of the 7th inst
wns received in due time. Agreeably 10
your request will write the facts con-
ccrning General McClellaa's presence on
board the United States steamer Galona,
which | have SO frequently stated TO you
and many other OF my friends in Newark
ain doing 50 must confess my utter
surprise that my testimony should be
needed to substantiate fact already 90
well established that no sane person
whether he sided with him or against
him, personally or politically, can doubt
il.
"Even Mcclellan himself, in giving his
Testimony upon this Identical question,
admits by implication that he was pres
ont, although apparently ashamed To
answer the dir, ct question He retreats
III der the cover OF defensive memcry
His answer, you rocotec,, is, 81 do no
remember. IL IL possible, may have
been; my camp was near the river
How is il that General Mcclellan
memory should become 50 wonderfully
ebllvious to his long and wcarisome stay
upon the quarter-dcck and IN the cabr
| OF the G Galena is to me entirely unex
plainuble, for he certainly was present
/ In the body, il perchance absent IN the
spirit, nnd ate, drank, walked, smoked
and tulked like any other man.
"An event of such importance, at such
O critical time, is, us you may well sup
pose, as indelibly sta nPed upon my
memory us the answer TO tho first qncs
ton in the Shorter Cat chism.'
YMy eyes were constantly upon him
and nv ears upon the alert, both TO learn
I the man and to catch some tldings of the
situation Of which we had most omiuuUf
, fOIehudings.
"DIy obs rvations and impressions
made at That Lime wtre written at lhe
time in ny daily j1urnal now iylng be-
fore mo, from which ] give you the
essential facts of the case under consid'
Grafton. .>.L uf.r.
"On the morning of June s0th, 1862
tho Galena, at thai limy Il gship oi tne
suuadron, lay near Hsx ,llN Landing.
was on the murDiug OF that dsy srnt on
sbore to inspect some Of toe wounded
who had been sent to the river bank fuI
transportation. and after having rCtufpcC
on bJard with Captain Rogers, learHed
I than another battle WAS expected curing
J the afternoon Of the same day. About
I2P. d., Ne ran H. the cpll elured head
quarters Of General McC Clyllan. Captain
Rodgers h, re went on shore, aud alter a
short ubsence brought Mcclellan on
board with him. lie was received by the
officers 10 undress uniform, and wac ae'
companied by the Prince dc Joinville aud
his Two neph ws, and others of note
Whom | did not pauIculnr'y notice, o'
inv whole attenthn Was concentrated
ulon McCl Ian. Near 4 p. NJ. Licdt.
Cium OF he S gnaI Corps, then s'otioneo
In the foretop, reported 'En my advan-
cling in large force upon the leil'' w
ran up snuie DISTANCE lurther' where We
could distinctly hear an almost iueessanl
roar Of artillery, mingled with yvoileys OF
musk, iry, apparently shout mile or two
OF We then commenced throwing
shells upward (the banks, or rather bluffs,
being quite high) and TO the left' 10 a