The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-05
Gen. John 4. Meclernana.


ing FROM the balcony Of the Mer-
chants Hotel Had The C6utttr been
eonteuH 10 lanhhahde the III distin.
edished soldier upon his own mers
its we would hive felt no disposition
TO take any notice. Of his advent. But
Vie CttDter EDITOR has 4 habit lbs IN
Itishman alleged Of one Of his neigh
bors) Of never opening his mouth
without tafaihe his foot in 1t, i" aud
his notice of Gen. M6CLEarAFD is
No exception to bis usual perform
abees Ii that line. We e6py The
| C5urier's notice Of the distinguished
General entire ft
| aHp. JoHN A. MeCLEHFAFbs - Tosmor-
row night the distinguished soldier whose
maine heads this article win speak from
! the balcony Of the Merchants Hotel gltia
! Eens. especially those who were formerly
In the army, are invited 90 be present and
hear what Gen. MeClernHnd has TO say on
the important questions Of the hour. He,
as leader of the Thirteenth Army Corps,
was the flglit.hand inah Of Gen. Grant
during tile famous siege of Vleksbufg, and
was always selected o. lead IN every dane
gerous movement made during that fa+
nous campaign. When Gen. Grant deter
mined TO abandon river communications,
aud bv a baia and hazardous coup swung
around the circle end environed that city
with bayunets. Gen. MeClefnand and his
nghtiag corps led ytifs vanguard Of the
army Ia It's psfilous march. Gen. Grant
bad no corps commander IN whom he
placed greater and more implicit oena
naenee than he did In Gen. MeClefnand,
As he fought There for tile Union. 50 Is he
now lighting the same fight, with the eN4
eeption that ~ ~ 10 be decided by Bhilota
ana not bayehets. aIe,8i.,,slat.s ti,a
1t 10 of General MdCLERNAND as
the right hand man of General
GRANT during the famous siege Of
Yloksburg, chat We wish to speak.
We propose 10 examine into the facts
in the case, and ascertain whether 1t
be true that General GRANT had no
corps ooinmssder I'M whom he placed
greater and more implicit confidence
than he did In General MoCLERpArp."
Those eonversant with the long
continued and terrible struggle for the
capture of Vieksburg, will remember
that during most Of The earlier opera
tions General MeCLERNANp did not
figure prominently. lie was charged
with working at Washington for tho
purpose Of securing his own promo
ton at the expense of other officers in
the army II was even reported at
one time that he was 10 superoede
General GRANr In command Of the
army operating for the opening of the
Mississippi. five remember rightly,
he joined his command just after
General SmERMANs' unsuccessful at.
tempt upon Vioksburg at Chickasaw
Bayous and in time to claim the. credit
of capturing Arkansas Post, an expe-
dition, which most of those connected
with il have since affirmed. was plan
ned by General SHERMAN, and carried
out in accordance with his plan.
1t Is true, we believe, that Gen.
MoCLEBNAND commanded the ad
vance corps when Gen GRANT threw
his army TO the South of Vioksburg
and began operations in that direction.
II Is well known to every soldier that
Cen. GitAN1t mover failed to bestow
praise upon any and oil of his subor-
dinates when they deserved IT, aud so
magnanimous was he that oftentimes
he was ready TO apologize for their
shortcomings. This fact must be
borne in mind by our readers in con-
sidering the following extracts, which
we propose making from the official
report Of his operations against
Vicksburg, and which demonstrate to
what extent he regarded Gen. Mo
CLERNAND as his " right hand man.
Without consuming time or space
in copying that portion of Gen.
GRANTS report referring to opera.
tions previous to The advance upon
Vicksburg from the south, we come
directly to that portion whore Gen.
MoCLERNANp's services are noticed.
The tlrst battle fought was at Port
Gibson. In speaking Of that engage
ment Con GRANT makes use Of the
following language, part of which we
italicise .-- -
McClerha1d WHO WINS with tho right in
person. sent repeeted message TO me before