The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-12-12
DOW show by taking examples which Mr.

DOW show by taking examples which Mr..
Kelley gives.
cannot now examine The figures be gives
In reference to the West Virginia campaign,
as have not the authorities ut hand. In
reference 10 the battle Of Shiloh, Swinton
gives the Confederate numbers at "about
10000; the Union army, $1,000" Now,
General Beauregard, rather better authority
than the war correspondent of the New
York Tribune, places OUR forces at $4,000
(seCen thousand less than Swinton's estimate),
and the Federal force at 81 900 (only thirty
thousand more than Swinton's estimate)-
so that he most decidedly overestimates our
force and underestimate that of the enemy.
And he does not find "STace" 10y the way,
what an ingenious dodge that isl to add that
Beauregurd had afterwards, ON bis retreat
from Corinth, only $4,000 men, wbilesthe
enemy had 125,000.
Swinton gives the Confederate force at
Murfreesboro' tolerably accurately ut 81, 200,
but he puts the Federal force at $1,000 men,
whereas General Bragg, from accurate in
formation, puts it at seuenty thousand.
Swlnton gives our numbers at Chancellors-
vile at IS, 900 and Hooker's at 90, 900, where
as the official reports place Hooker's force at
one hundred and thirty thousand n,en-only
10000 more than Swinton gives him.
Swinton gives the losses in the campaign
from the Wilderness to the James with tol-
erable accurpcy-60, 900 for the Federals and
less than third of that number for the
Confederates, the official figures being orer
$4,000 to 1S,000-but he does not fud
"space" to intimate that during this time
Lee had from first to last Oncuding all Of his
relnforcements) only little over SC, 900 men
with which to oppose Grants horde of over
100000.
Swinton gives our force in 1865 tolerablv
correctly at "less than 10000" $4,000 was
the real number), but ne places Grants at
100000, whereas be had at least 10000 ef.
fectiyes according TO their own reports and
he does not find "space" to let the pupil
know that Lee surrendered at Appomatt OF
only 1900 men with arms in their hands,
I have no means ut hand Of verifying the
comparison Of losses.
Thus I have taken Mr.. keiley's own cx.
amples and proven my charge that Swinton
| falsities numbers at the expense of the South
next come to Mr.. Keiley's illustrations
of Swinton's "JuN appreciation Of the
South"
l. He calls Stonewall Jackson famous,
| but rs he does not say what he was /" "fa
nous for, the pupil might infer that he was
| famous for fast running for all he would get
to the contrary from this history.
2. He says that Sumter was held by the
| Confederates, though beaten into ruins
! Well, let him have full credit for this won
dcrful appreciation"
3. "He publishes Grants incapacity BY
showing that he was unable to match Lee
and had to content himself with ,reartna
him out.' This is Mr.. Keiley's inference
and by no means what Swintou says; for he
doubtless agrees with the North in esteem
| ing this discovery of Grant the height o.
strategic ability.
4. "He neither conceals Grants Infamous
order to waste the Shenandoah valley, nol
Sherman's responsibility $50 persistently de-
MED by the North) for the burning Of Co
lumbia." No! But he does not call the or
der Infamous" but takes pains to assign
as Grants reason, " so that the Confederdt.
army should hare nothing 10 lire on" and
he does not find "sInce" to ell us that thi
"laying waste" included the burning OF pri
yatc houses and turning Of helpless womer
and children out Of doors to starye. HI
tells us that Sherman burned Columbia, bu
does not tell of the other towns he burned
and the outrages he allowed his " "bummers
, TO commit through South Carolina. He find
"space" TO tell Up. 274) that Early tool
, with him great booty from Maryland ant
A Pennsylvania, and burned the town Of Cham
! bersburg"; but be has not "space" to te
} of Hunters vandalism in burning tue Vii
, ginia Military Institute, numbers Of privat
: residences, &C. and that it was in retaliation
for these acts that Early burned Chambers
burg after formal demand for sum {
5 money in compensation for these outrage
which was refused. He does not Tin
, "space" to tell of Federal outrages whel
ever they got the opportunity, nor of Lee
splendid magnanimity when in Pennsylv
nia in restraining his men from depred
tions on the people. In fact, Mr.. Kelley hi
summed up his "full appreciation Of Il
South" and / really do not think that Y
have any sort of occasion to 80 on our kne
in gratitude to him for it.
j. WILLIAM JONES.
F'drmviNe, Va., December 8, 1873.
, WANT Of room compels US to divide N
Jones's article.]