The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-25
SHERIDAN ON EARLY.

Rebel General again aHemt WbfrIfng."
The following is the letter. already alluded to,
addressed by General Sheridan to a New Orleans
paper, in reply to the Rebel General Early's
recent statements in the New York Daily Ne,cs:--
"HEADoUARTERs MILITARY DIVISION OF THE
GULF, NEW ORLEANS, January 8, 1S66.-To the
Editors of the New Orleans Ddilu Crescent
Gentlemen:-There is a class of military men
who should be considered worse than towards,
and to that class belong those who are willing
and attempt to ialsify history.
"The following statistics should fix the status
of ex.General Jubal A. early in this respect,
whose letter to the New York NetCs furnished
you the data for an article published in the
Crescent of the 9th instant, in which General
Early states that the forces opposed to my COM
mSnd in the Shenandoah Valley consisted of
about eight thousand five hundred muskets,
three battalions of artillery and less than three
thousand cavalry
According to the statement of my Provost
Marshal-General, the number of prisoners cap.
tured in the Shenandoah Valley from August a.
1864 to March l, 1865, was about 130O0 and the
names of nearly that number are recorded on
the books recently used in the office of the Pro-
vost Marshal General of the Middle Military
Division. My official records show that my loss
in killed and wounded from August A, 1864, to
January ], 1865, was 1881, and General Early's
loss was fully as great, II not greater; conse-
quently, we can safely estimate his casualties at
1881 men. l also enclose herewith a statement
by Lieutenant Mckee, of the United States
ordnance corps, eXnlOltlng list OF one nun
dred and one pieces of field artillery, captured
from General Early's command, in the
Shenandoah Valley, from August 4, 1864 to
January, 1865. This statement does not include
six pieces of field artillery captured at Waynes-
boro, four at Greenwood Station, two at Char
lottesville, and four at South Anna Bridge, on my
march from Winchester to Petersburg, during tine
months of February and March, 1865. General
Earlys statement that he had about one thou.
sand men at Waynesboro, is hard to reconcile
with the fact that over one thousand four hun
dred men of his command we're captured at that
engagement; and his estimate of my forces is
incorrect E2o but that may be considered pardon
II am, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
obedent servant, p. II. SHERIDAN,
"Major-General United States Army.n
This letter is accompanied by statements from
G. B. Parsons, late Provost-Marshal General OF
the middle Military Division" and Major o. II.
Howard, Chief Signal Officer of the "Divsion OF
the Gulf" which General Sheridan embodies, the
substance OF which is also accompanied by a
statement of captured artillery from Lieutenant
George w. Mckee, General Sherdans Chief
Ordnance officer of which the folio wing is an
abstract, exhibiting the number OF pieces cap
tured by General Sheridan's forces from August
20, 1884, and January l. ls65-
u 2twelve-poundeIs marked u, 3.
20 three-inch ordnance guns. marked u. s.
II ten-pounder Parrot guns, marked U. S.
sIX-pounder bronze gum marked ).
2tWeIve-pOundermOun hOwitzers markedU. S
twelye.pOuDder field howltzer, marked U. ).
"a three-inch ordnance twelve-Dounders, marked
U. 5.
twelve FOUNDER iron guns, marked S.
Z tweye.pounder brOGze guus, marked &. s.
three and one.halI inch iron gun mark I'd q. S.
three+nch iron guns, marked Q. :.
thTee-inch bronze gun. marked q. s.