The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-19

enough, and in whose handwriting shouiu
| Il be bnt his maynard wife's. II was o
hoax, and the telegraph superintendent
went back to his Confederate home sad
der and wiser man.
After n time she, too, returned to Rich
mond, but the dark days Of the dissolu-
ton had come, and the brilliant galaxy
that once surrounded her were beginning
10 fade out and seek q safe retreat. But
her adventures and her conquests were
not over. She had obtained q divorce in
New York, and came back FREQ woman.
Among those who had long worshipped at
her shrine was L. A. Pollard, the celebra.
led author OF the Lost Cause" He pres
sed his suit she consented and they were
married. She lived quiet life for some
months, but bad temper brought ruin to
another household, and poor Pollard fled
to New York to escape the torment. She
followed him in q rage, swearing death
and destruction. He hid away in some
quiet nook, and not being able to find
him, she went to young druggist IN the
city, who, she had reason TO believe, knew
where the fugitive was.
"Where is that dog Pollarl?" said she.
~ do not know" said the druggist.
'You do, said she.
~ do not" said he.
81 will make you tell, said she.
And at that she drew out u revolver and
shot him in the thigh. The wound was
not fatal one, and she was never punish.
ed. This was after tho war. Pollard
went back to Richmond and died, as much
Of broken heart as anything else.
leisurely, and on the morning OF the 10Th
he reached Manassas junction on his way
towards Centreyille. Here he received
orders to countemarch his corps and to
move expeditiously on the road from Man
assas Junction to GAINESVILLE, past Beth:
lchem Church, in order to join the lett Of
the Federal forces then engaged. he
moved with his corps in the direction m
Dictated, some three miles (still some three
miles from where our forces were engaged
until he came to "Dawkins Branch" q
small stream nearly dry, where he halted
his column and deployed the 18th New
York Infantry as skirmishcrs. Here he
remained the balance Of that day up to
late at night, the battle raging tierccly of
to his right front about two and one half
Tor three miles away, with his thousands
OF men doing nothing.
His defence to this conduct is, first, that
he could not hear the firing; second, there
was no battle at all third, the woods were
so dense that he could not move OIL TO his
right and there was q heavy Rebel force in
his front, which prevented his advance.
As to any OF these defenses they arc fri
yolous in the extreme. In q level country
like the country around Manassas, Va,
artillery firing could be easily heard 20
miles. As TO there being no battle at oil
on the 29tll, that theory was exploded by
the testimony OF Maj. Gen. Franz Seigel,
who says that his command, the LIST corps,
was engaged all day and lost heavy. Also
Mai Gen 10. Hooker, who says his con-
mand was engaged In tho afternoon oil that
day and that in twenty minutes ho lost
from 1000 to 1000 men. =.
Now as to the large force in front. or
what did they consist? Simply OF a bat
terry OF artillery and some two cavalry regi-
ments under Gen. Iiossar, 9, S. A., who,
was afraid that Porter would attack, and
! in order to deceive had his troopers en-.
ployed in dragging brush up and down
the road, raising o dust in order TO deceive
Porter as to his true strength. Had por-
ter came forward on that day and aided
our left wing, Us Gen. Pope had every rca-
son 10 expeCt, we would have easily
turned Jaokson's right and captured his
estire command before iongslrGGt could
possibly reinforce. AS 1t was, bloody
and unsuccessful battle was fought. Thous-
ands OF brave men were sacrificed TO for,
tcr's treachcry, carrying ont his expressed
sentiment, ~ wasn't loyal to Pqpel !
was loyal to Mcclellan" And now comes
the words OF our lamented Chief Mag.is'
trate, Abraham Lincoln, as testified to by
his son, Mr. Robert Lincoln, in this case.
On the 18th inst, In detailing q CONVERSE
ton, had between himself and father,
wherein his father gave him some account
OF the case as reported to hin,and told him
tho substanepofa notewritten by Gen. For:
Ter to Gen. Mcdowell on the aiternoQn Of
the battle august Goth, 1859, in which
Porter stated that no believed our forces
were being beaten and he was about to
withdraw towards Manassas. His father
at that tima remarked "that in his opinion
the conduct OF Gen. Porter, taken in con-
ncction with that letter, has boon such as
to Justify sentence OF DEATH" llc stated
further That his fathers remarks conveyed
the impression to him that no regarded
the sentence OF the court-martlal Us too
mild rather than too severe.
The foregoing is brief outline OF the
case so fur a. ! know it. believe that
Gen. Porter was capable 0ilipNF,loyal 70 the
government OF which he was an officer,
speaking in a general sense, and q brave
man, but it is my firm opinion that he was
jealous o. Con, Popa-fcared thatif sue.
eesslul In that battle h0 would snpplant
Gen. Mcclellan, and was willing to lose
the battle rather than that Con. Pope
should have the honor OF gaining
it. There is a strong feeling OF sym.
pathy for General Porter here in New
York. As is nearly always the ease, the
active influence OF The individual will ok
cite more sympathy than that Of the State.
It is hard to forecast the result: 1t was
said once by an eminent lawyer that there
was ono thing which in his opinion the
prosclonpo Of tho Almighty could not fath-
ON, and that WIS tho verdict OF q petit
Jury. Perhaps courts.martlal might be
classed in the same cate CORY. W. :