The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-06-06
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at San Fmncisco whsro hc has large
property interests derived from hisd dead
wife who was the sistcr Of GuBsbcck
Of Cincinnati. He is I confirmed
invalid IA body and mind, and Il : no
tired oAlccr on thrse quarters pay,
which amounts In his case to about
six Thousand dollars per annum.
He has Published Ia tho San Fran
cisco C1Ironicle, which is republished
In the Chicago Democratic 7ri6nne, 4
two-column vindication Of himself. in
which he delivers vast amount Of
yenom against his late comrades, and
Ncsent superior officers, which is as
fa'sc and malicious as It Ii unsoldicrly.
He says the gallant ono-armcd How
. ard who succeeded McPherson in COM
mand OF the Armyof thS Tennessee.
vas an 4old woman among tfoops,"
that he is very bad man but 90
"pious!" And that he was rcspon-
sible for his (Hooker's) defeat at Chan
cellorsville, and farther adds that !. il
he was not born In petticoats, he
ought to have been, and ought to wear
them. He was always taken mp with
Sunday schools and the temperance
cause. These things are all very good,
you know, but have very little to do
with commanding army corps. He
would command q prayer meeting
with good deal more ability than he
would an army"
He also goes for the dead Halleck
with equal venom. He says he is en-
titled to the credit Of Gettysburg be-
cause Meade only carried out his
plans. He says Of Grant: @Just be-
fore I left New York to attend the
military needing at Cleveland, he sent
Ingalls, to me to know how I would
receive him there. My reply was that
] could not be rude to tho President Of
the United States; but as for Gem
ii" Grant, / wouldn't touch him
"a pair Of tongs. Grant has NO
friends now among the old army
ohlcers-ao friends except ofiice-seek-
seTA" " And of Sherman that sshe is 4
|Mnatic. Igot letter from Sherman
rdering me to pursue the eqemy, but
II y to hght him. wrote him that /
thought II was good deal like the
woman who gave her boy permission
to 60 a-fishing with the express pro-
vision that he must not 60 near the
water. People called Sherman crazy
during the early part of the war. II
was premature; If they had waited
until be surrendered every issue of
the war to johnson, they would have
hit the nail ON the head"
And right away after the abuse of
Sherman for lenient terms awarded
to Johnston, he says he (IIookcr) was
for universal amnesty from the day
the war closed, and violently villifies
the Republican party for not granting
it long ago.
After maligning pretty nearly every
body else he ever served with except
Mcclellan, he thus touches up Carl
Schurz, who commanded corps with
him at Charlottesville
tkReporter. "Carl Schurz seems 10
bxYc been played out as a General
toward the last" -
General Ii. "The first bullet at
Wauhatchie turned his brain. rode
1 up to him and said, can't afford to
Il eril whole command just because
Ohe man is flurried. D-m YOU,
what's the matter with your"
Reporter. You removed him 2"
General H. "Yes, on the spot. You
can't sacrifice troops, you know, for
one man, no matter how high his
rank. The cause was too sacred to be
trified with"
Reporter. "Hc'sa a Greeley man, is
he not 2"
General III. eyes, and that is all
right enough. Schurz is good talker,
and that's all there is of him. Talk
about his Commanding the German
vote. The idea of public man hav-
ing influence with people who knows
he can't stand fire! Nonsense"
He concluded by announcing that
Greeley is to be the next President.
From Marlborough's eyes the tears Of do
tage low.