The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-11
Attacks UPON UNION SOLDIERS.

.TT.CKS Upon UNION SOLDIERS.
There is a paper published in this city,
called the Onion, having very limited cir
culation, and very malignant editor VINO
processes great "loyalty"and love Tor soldlers
Init as soon as he finds soldier who does not
agree with the radical negro-sufrage wing OF
his party, he commences to abuse HIN IN un-
measured terms. No democratic soldier or
conservative republican soldier Is exempt
from his venomous and malignant abuse
Col. Williams, Maj. Connolly, Capt Knox
Lieut.. Jobe, Burton II. Cook and others have
all been subject to the abuse, slurS or sneers
of this negro-worshipper,- and now capt. D.
n. SHELTON, Co. X. 5Sth III. Vol comes IN tor
abuse from the same source. Not long ago
the editor of the Union, seeing a favorable
notice of Capt. Shelton, in the ARGUS, took
occasion to sheer at the Captain and say
that he owed that Office and he wished him
70 call and nav. This sort of treatment of
man who had always been republican, who
had exposed his life for the Union, and VINO
was home on a sick furlough, was dastardly
and mean. even if he did owe him. But we are
assured by Capt. SHELTON that ''he does not
owe the Union Office or any one connected
with it, a cent" and that ''he never laid
straw in Barnes way, except that, when ne
1.-THE Captain kept grocery store in this city
he refused to trust Barnes for 10 lbs. OF su-
gar" That is just exactly what the Captain
wishes us to say in reply to the charge that
he owes the Union,
But the Union continues its abuse of the
Captain, and on Saturday evening, published
TRADE of slang and abuse of him, signed:
"Ben Hardin, Co. X, 5Sth Ill. Inf" We
learn from Corporal 1. n. kirkpatrick, OF Co
K, 5sth Ill. Inf. who is now in this city, that
there is no such person as Ben Hardin IN that
company. The letter is, of course, made
M affair, and by sorca who was ashamed to
signIit. Whether made up in the Union office,
as some suppose, or somewhere else, Is OF no
importauce-it is a cowardiy attack upon e
Union officer. and the only charge OF any luz
portancs in it is false, viz: 1t is charged
that, at Whistler, Ala.Capt Shelton prevented
the company from being mustered out. This,
we are informed, is wholly untrue. 1t never
was in the power of Capt. Shelton either TO
procure the mastering out of the c1npany,o or
prevent it. Any military man, or any intel
ligent private knows this tos be true, and any
one who asserts to the contrary, asserts what
is not true.
To show in what estimation Capt. Shelton
is held by his superior offioers,we are permit.
ted to copy the following, from an official let.
ter now in his possession, viz:
head Q'Rs Posi- OF MONTGOMERY,
Montgomery, Ala. Sept. 80, 1896
Can't. J. B Comstock, Asst. Adgt. Gen. Dist
of Montgomery:
C.PrAIs-I have the honor to request that Capt
lawn SHELTON, 5Sth Ill. Inf. be released from du-
~ with the Freedmen's Bureau, with a view of HI.
appointment Provost Marshal of this Post.
He is the most competent officer know of fOi
that position land believe can well be spared from
the post ne fills.
Very Respectfully
Your obi Servant,
r. W. HEALY,
Lieut.. Col Comding.
After being referred and passing through
the various offices, with Recommendations IN
its favor, il was endorsed BY the Brig. Gen
Commanding as follows:
OFFICE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, !
B. r. F. & A. L,
Montgomery, Ala. Oct. 4 1859.
Respectfully returned. The services of Capt
Shelton cannot be spared without injury the = u
reau. He is in position where, by MS labor, he
has relieved the government of great expense IL
the support of Freedmen, and IN order that suci
exemption from expense may be maintained ht
should retain his present duties.
Signed. WAGER SwAYNE
BrIg. Gen. and Asst. C0m'r
Capt Shelton invites the onion to continue
It's fasehoods, and its anonymous ISLANDERS
for he considers abuse from such sourct
more creditable to him than praise--but IA
desires the public through the columns of thu
ARGUS, to know In what estimation ne is aelt
by his commanding officers, as shown by tin
documents herewith published.