Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-29

Yet could never understand it, for no one
could know Mcdowell without liking him. His
career is one of the surprising things in the war;
So is Buell's. Buell. does not like me, am
afraid. but have always borne my testi mony
to his perfect loyalty and his ability. Buell.
Is a man who would have carried out Loyalty
every order he received, and / think he mad
genius enough for the highest commands; but.
somehow, he fell under cloud"
The troubl with many of our generals IN
the beginning. /" said tbs General, was that
they did not believe in the war. ! mean that
they did not have that complete assurance in
success which belongs to good generalahip.
They had views about slavery, protecting rebel
property, State rights-political views that
interfered with their Judgment. Now do not
mean to say they were disloyal. A soldier had
as good a right to his opinions any other
citizen, and these men were as loyal as any men
In the Union-would have died for the Union
but their opinions made them lukewarm, and
many failures came from that. In some cases
it was temperament. There is Warren, whose
case may be regarded a hard one. Warren
had risen Sto one of the highest commands in
the army, and was removed on the field OF
hattie, and in the last battle of the war. Yet 1T
could not be helped. Warren is a good soldier
and good man, trained in the art of war.
But, as a general, if yon give him an order he
would not act until he knew what the other
corps would do. Instead of obeying-and
knowing that the power which was guiding him
would guide the others-he would hesitate and
inquire and want to debate. 1t was this quail
~ which led to our disaster at the mine plo-
sion before Petersburg. II Warren had obeyed
orders we would have broken Lees army in two
and taken Petersburg. But when he should have
been in the works he was worrying over what
other corps would do. So the chance was lost.
should have relieved Warren then, but / did
not like to lnjure an officer of SO high rank for
what was an error of judgment. Bat at Five
Forks 1T was different. There was no time to
Sheridan to relieve Warren if he at all failed
him. Sheridan did SO, and no one regretted the
necessity more than 1 did.
a LITTLE ELEVATION.
Albert Sidney Johnston might have risen in
fame, and we all had confidence in his doing
SO, but he died too soon, a. Stonewall Jackson
died. too soon for us to say what he would have
done under the later and altered conditions of
the war. The Southern army had many good
generals. Lee, of course, was a good soldier,
| and so was Longstreet but | do not know that
there was any better than Joe Johnston. | have
had nearly all of the Southern generals in com
mand in front of me, and Johnston gave me
more anxiety than any of the others
Lee. BY the way, l saw in Joe Johnston's book
that when was asking Pemberton to surren.
der Vicksburg he was on his way to raise the
siege. I was very sorry. If had known
Johnston was coming would have told Penn
| berton to wait in Vicksburg until l wanted
him, awaited Johnston's advance and giver
him battle. He could never have beaten tina
Vicksburg army, and thus l would have de
stroyed two armies perhaps. Pembertons wal
already gone, and l was quite sure of John
stons. l was sorry did not know Johnston
was coming until it was too late. Take it al
in all. the South, in my opinion, had no bette
soldier than Joe Johnston-none, at least, tina
/ gave me more trouble"