Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-10

III ne ilad attacked me, but had not subSlSt-
ence sufficient to keep my troops two
weeks longer from starvation.
% In his report of Dec. I'd, 1862, Gen. Hal
leck says that just before the evacuation,
reported that | had s''several weeks sup
plies;" but in his letter of Feb. s, 1863 he
asserts that in dispatch Of Sept. 18th, 1862,
alleged to have been written by me six days
before the evacuation, | said that had
supplies for seventy or eighty days. But
In that same letter General Halleck says:
'U is true that he (Morgan) stated II, his dis
patch that his supplies tcere Hmited.' How,
then, does Gen. Halleck reconcile the as
sertion of seventy or eighty days supplies
with his admission that / reported that my
supplies were limited? He says that SO
stated In my dispatch of Sept. H. 1862; but
! deny having written such dispatch to
Gen. Halleck, Gen. Wright or any other
person.. Nosuch dispatch was written by or
| for me; and if any purportiDg to be such is
| In existence, | denounce it as forgery.
In my official report to Gen. Wright, Oc-
ytober ~, 1862 exhibit y, l said: son the
9th of September last Exhibit j., ad-
dressed a letter to Maj Gen. Wright, by one
of my aids-de-camp, aoiM Uerbal message
that By eating mules zoe could hold ont Sirty
days Exhibit 10; but on the 18th of Sep
tember, the able and energetic division
quartermaster informed me that it was i'm
possible longer to feed the mules, and sug-
gested that they should be sent to the Ohio
river" further stated that my troops had
been six days without bread, and that De
Courcy had failed to obtain the hoped-for
supplies at Manchester. These facts were
all before Gen. Halleck while he was writing
his report of Dec. I'd, 1862, for which he so
nngraceiully apologies in his letter to Gen.
Wright of Feb. Sth. 1868. ..... ...,..,,
Gen. Halleck further says: "IIad his
(Morgan's) true condition been known,
measures might have been taken to relieve
him." % p.- t......g ,....-....
Does Gen. Halleck mean to say that he
did not do all he was able to do at Big Hill,
Richmond and Lexington? Does he admit
that he did not cause Bragg and Smith to
be driven from Kentucky at the earliest
possible moment? If so, then it is certain
chat Gen. Halleck is responsible for the
loss of Cumberland Gap; for the enemy
maintained his position in the heart of Ken
lucky, one hundred miles this side of Cum
berland Ford, until more than two months
after my troops had been starved out of
Cumberland Gap. .r.-I sim.
However ill-iptormed Gen. Halleck may
have been ito the general theater of oper-
ations, propose to prove that he had no
excuse for being ignorant OF the condition
of my command. He had been duly noti-
| fled that my division was surrounded on The
| barren summit of the Cumberland Noun
tains; that Stephenson was in my immedi-
ate front with force double my own; that
Bragg was on my right flank with a vast
| army; that Kirby Smith had gained my
rear with a force represented as being three
times stronger than mine; and that Mar
shall occupied the sterile region to the
| north, between the Gap and the Ohio river
He had been further informed by my Off
| cial report of the occupation of that strong
| hold, under date of June 22d, 1862, that
| while at Cumberland Ford was compell-
| ed to haul forage Exhibit IL a distance of
April and May the roads were so bad that a
train of ten wagons could only advance
three or four miles per day. - -.,..,..
| That on the Both of June, 1862, tele-
graphed to Lieut.. Col. Swords, Assistant
Quartermaster General ..f..-. .... .
| 1--WE are in want of everything. We are
destitute of forage" rurr 10 .,aa.. D. p
That on the 2lst day of July, 1862, Chief
| Engineer Craighill, acting on my staff, tel
egraphed to Brigadier General Totten, at
| Washington City yG pysl 1.E d. i.
"The country in our rear is exhausted
That in our front soon will be-" .'.gl
That Oh the 2Sd of July, l telegraphed to
the Secretary of War and to Gen. Buell.
My supplies are oeiy short" 'i' 's
That on the Doth day of July, in my letter
ofinstructions to Chief Engineer Craighill,
about to proceed to General Halleck,s
headquarters Csee Exhibit NJ, ] stated
that .nat.. ao ,.-..,'-... ...-.,.. . P ,,,,
EAST Tennessee and Kentucky to the
Blue Grass region are exhausted"
That on the 10th of Aupust telepranbed
TO the Secretary of War and to General
RueIN -'' - ''''0 W = Wv "'
VI have about three weeks sunplies., D.,
MI. -, a. Iet,, of 80. T taIa, :,
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a.. ao ioy Su,'n u gdnnoC pvss.y t IGai h!sa
tt;s al s',oac IN iesi mne
mo,u on,s y = i''i my pres
eiS iE, oyul'iia,iu S;n. ,,siS .,o,Cb,> e, 5 g.
dove from, tbe date Of ,bot t,;snotnS al' NV
u1yS 2S,a ato tho th IotI y, nf 'haU
aIIlae On tne ioen oL august teegrapn,
eu ueIeIai 1alie9k Shae ,Cie me nuiurea anu
my waions na9eu wiVn y, loraSe anu suo-
sisSSalce ahlD naVe arirveu u. i,se'.s
,a1 hh1SS S s9ppiles @ Were prlnclpaliy oL lorage;
WHICH haq, oeen nauieI oStr one .a llundrSa n
lniies a.le 10 Vne CoaIis nau 70 pe ieu, wnIe
on V,io ioau, liHul Ine "asVhs' Iiie anio.'ic
yas greasiy reaaceu ~ tSe .e.ho. q 1,a,
ere, S"e Is .,in prooi snas He9eral tiai-
leSh MAS aepeaeeu,y a,lle,sneu M ot ,my trus
Hnonoln tS as " ,suppnte anu O,;af s'iaS ne hau az
Ille iiieans il,ta. vi nav soi ie lelo,, as ne
says ne ne nlSnv li.,s naye aone, ne Is oeyonu
berland be- I Gap pY%i'' q Vi''iT ~ 'n' '''' VI o"
i General Hallecl, saysitbat stbe Cavern