The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-20

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The New York News has received
the, ,foHoxing interesting letter from
Cen Early late Lieutenant1Gen
C.S. A.: .s'sh249' s''oi'
EayiSi, Il l. Dec. is, 1S65.--The reports
.otehs campaigns Of 1s64pand 1861 by
Secretary Stanton and Lieut., Gen1
6sant recently published contain
many erroneous statements which do
srrat .injustice, to- the Confederate
armies. TIE press iat the Southern
States is ct present effectually muzzied
by uilitary sule, and the Confederate
Gauss has no appropriate Eorgan by
which the ears Of the world can be
reached The, time viii arrive. how
ever. when e. true history Of the war
fare can be written, so as to enable
foreign nations and posterityr ITO do
;ustfraa ~ "a esshat "a cfASSof fitncA xrho
have sustained SO unequal q struggle
for all that is dear to man. In antici-
pationoof that time, Liwill,fcallq atten-
tion olsome. facts which, will show the
tremendous =, odds the Confederate
armies had to encounter.
Mr. Secretary Stanton s report shows
that the available strength present for
dntyin The army with which General
Grant commenced 4helseampaign of
1861 was. on the s1st of May, 1864. as
follows:
The Army Of the Potomac (under Gen.
-. SEssas. E;.a -. .,, ,;.. & ~ ..
A1~ @AA@y NotP~S kuhuCt 0CA
Burnsidey ..fraas.s .as..i2za - -. 20,7sO
s. "a sotsss - iW -sq sasat1sq
Aggregate .s.,o1 ..;.-. 'l4l,l65
= Besides this, he says the chief part
ofthe force designed to guard the Mid
die Department and the Depart ment of
Washington, twas called to the front to
Tepair the lossesinthe Army of the Po-
&ofnAc, which wasd doubtless donebefore
shas army left the vicinity of Spottsy.-
vania Court House, as Gen. Grant says:
"The 18th, 14th, 18th, 16th,. 18th and
18th, (of May, 1864 were consumed
iRtaaAss1 "a 30 wishing iot ran ran
foteemonts from Washington; and Mr..
Stanton says the sending of these
troens to the front caused the, detach-
ing from Gen. Lees army of the forces
under me, to threaten Baltimore and
Washington The, available strength
of the forces in those departments, on
the lst of May, according to Mr.. Stan
tons report, was as follows:
in Abe Department Of washingt6a ifs.a.Iiladk5
Is the Middle Department 5.6A7
Aggregate F,75l
OSshsSh xs5may be safely assumed that
at least 10000 men were sent to the
hont, as Gen. Grant says that when /
6pproaShed Agashingbo6 the EgafFlA,5lis
OF that place and Baltimore were "made
mp Of heavy artillery regiments, hun
drsd days men, and detachments from
the Invalid Corps" and hence it be-
came. necessary to send troops from his
army t. meet me. fhis, thefefore,
made an army of 10000 men which
Gen. Lees aEmyghady toqmeet before,
as / will show, it had received any re-
Inducements whatever This estimate
does not include the reipforcementsr re-
eeived in the way of recruits from vol
untary enlistment and the draft, which
wap .cchstantIy going son, nor'sdoes it
include reinforcements from the North
ern Department, aud the Departments
Of East end the Susquehanna, where
.AeSs ~eus byh ssl9tpk's showing,
15.347 available men for duty, the
greater part of which, it is presumed,
were sent to Gfant 9 as i I 5tahaerwiss9 5a 1 Is they
might have been brought to Washing
ton lemest5my force with peneD ease
thAn from his army.
Gen. !see'syarYy, st the beginning Of
she campaign, consisted of two divi-
sions of Longstreet's corps, Ewell's
Oorpb,EA fiill'si iecfps, hthFees divi-
siOns Of cavalry and the artillery. /
commanded at different times during
shS:sam mnipaaiign. Hiil.s and Ewell 8 Corps,
and am, therefore. able TO ) state, ST very
nearly, the entire strength of the army
E~eil's corps, sowhieh / beleHgea7 did
potexceed fourteen thousand IA, ,O0a)
muskets at the beginning OF the cam
PSign.' lWheAK I waskplaced inooa-