Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-01
THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN.
What Gen. Grant Says AbOut It-Geu.
Iayl0r>s and Ex.Secretary Welles'
Declarations.

The WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN.
What Gen. Grant Says About It-Geu.
Tayiors and Ex-Secretary Welles'
Declarations.
Herald correspondent called his attention to
/ the recent article in the North American r.
! rfep from Gen: Richard Taylor, saying in eff
in Wilma aeaipst his naa Iougnf ms eampgn
doing so had thrown away the lives of 1000
men and also to the article in the Atlantic
Welles, in which ar Weiles arraisned G Gen.
Grant, upon the authority of Gen. TAYLOR for
having insulted Lincoln'S memory by attempt
ing to throw upon Lincoln his own fault i'm the
WILDERNESS and other campaigns. In reg ard
to Gen. Taylor's article Gen. Grant SAID: II
have no doubt there are some true things in
| the article but the part which refers to me
is wholly false, utterly false, without shad ow
of foundation. Gen. Taylor says that in a con
ference between President Lincoln, Secretary
ing campaign in Virginia was discussed
No such conference was ever held and no
such campaign was ever discussed. General
Taylor says that insisted upon advancing my
whole army against Richmond by the James
river. l never said word to the President
or Secretary of War,Or any one else in author
ity, as to how would advance. General lay
lor reports Mr. Lincoln as saying that the W
ernment required the interpoSitiOn of an army
between Lee and Washington. Mr.. Lincoln
never said a word resembling this, or anything
at all on the subject. General Taylor rep }. Is
me as saying that any change of routA from
my own by the James TO anO her Won I c.
! 10000 men. This is pure fiction, as, lille
the whole story is pure fiction. GenCrt Tay-
| Tor says that the story comes 10 MIN " Ell a
thenticated, and he has no doubt of li5 COZ
rectnesS. There are only three perSo i wno
could authenticate such StOry-Mr. Line Ia
Mr.. Stanton and myself Lincoln and stan o.,
are dead, and say the Whole story is Il fl osi.
| cation, and whoever youched for it e. General
! Taylor vouched for fiction. l feel il iuA to
| the memory of these great men, apart from
! any sentiment OF self vindic ttipn, 10 MAKE
/ nInl nhlfl Il
>ihle."
Il remember" said General Grant, Every
| well my fist interview with Stanton. You
! know cid not come to Washington until |
! came in relation to an order to assume com
mand of the armies. had once been there as
| young man, but otherwise it was my fr>t
| trip. / found Stanton cordial AMI willing t.
! do any thing, so we suppressed the rebellion
! Nothing could have been more earnest and
hearty than his treatment Of me. Now, says
! he, General, L do not WANT 10 know yoIr
! plans. Tell me what you need to carry them
out That is all | care to know. AMI when
you go to see Mr.. Lincoln you will DO Well to
may not want to know any more of your plans
Than L do, but can understand how You
mm ls naturally SEX The confidence of The
and tender nature, apt to conide in MAY
people and what you tell him about military
moyement~ he may tell to the next Senator
saw Lincoln: tie Was a5 cordial and
hearty as Stanton, ifpossible m IRE So, becau ,e
ne was a man OF more a!fabie and gracious
! manners. When Lincoln and | We're acne
the President began the conversation by re-
peating story from all article by OGpheuS c.
| kerr-a comic article Satirizing the conIu L
OF the war. 1t was, as | remember, a story
about Captain Bob Shorty and the Mackere
| Brigade, and the amazon Ia policy, )m thin :
! about generals in the field being hampareI by
flood of orders. When he had finished LIN
| coin said very much what Stanton h I'd said
that he did not care to know what vas 10 10
only to know what | wanted; thai | should
have all L required He wished me to beat
Lee; how L did it was, my own dl y
He said he did not wish to know my
plans or to exercise any scrutiny over my
plans plans SO long as [ beat the reb6
pan he had long thought over. and took
down map. He drew an imaginary line be
| :Ween two OF the Virginia creeks or rivers, the
names of which have escaped me, ami said
that might move on that line and have the
| streams for supplies. | looked at the plan
saw in moment that if had put my army on
such line L would be in much the same posi-
ton as the army of the James. L would b.
powerlesS; could do no good to our sile and
no harm to the other. would be locked up
| told Mr.. Lincoln / would consider the pan.
and that was the last of it. The route was AZ
! impossible route, and was never mentioned
again by Mr.. Lincoln.
That is, as far as | can remember the ex.
act story of the conference between Mr.. Lin
com, MI. Stanton and myself when | took
| command of the army. The question of nv
plans ana their wisdom or unwisdOm was
/
| correspondence. If there were bunde.S in
that campaign the blunders were mine ana
not those OF Lincoln or Stanton. They did
| everything in the world to insure nv success
! opoh me and me alone must the whole Re
>ponsibility fall
The Statues of the Nations at PART.
On the terrace there Is a chance to note win
care the colossal figures which represent The
various foreign nations contributing. Here il
Austria, a little and winSOme mail OF decidedly
Slavic type. wonder if the sculptor fan lie
that he was fOrecaSting her destiny when h,
denied her TeutOnic look. Next IS Spain,
! sian Sea-SideS and CatalOnian hills. And here
is China, Celestial damsel, Chinese in every
Ting except the shape OF her eyes. which are
nothing less than almond; Japan, a bright
| girl clad in fantastic raiment of Niphon Ttaiv.
classical woman. severe, and evidently caot
Die OF much Development; Sweden, the fai
lips and wondering eyes; Norway. a girl tall as
a rine, shy as mountain blossom, and wi h a
northern l star grit on her lustrous forehead.
clasps to her breast flag, as if it were the OBJ
Ject OF her most passionate alteration, except
scroll which she holds in one hand, and which
but America of the North? Beside her stands
the antipOdes, fnll-lipped, saucy savage, with
inhnlte promise written upon her face. Aus
traia. the far-olf and astounding. And the
twin sisters that occupy the last pillars of the
| facade, one naughty and ~unbending. and
draped Ike Italy. the other yielding, exquisite
/
| Orient these are England and India There
| they are, memorable galaxy, and it is worth
Drawing the heat to look at them. do not see
Prussia, Russia and Turkey here although
| dare say that shall find them i'm time, There
was much power in the mind of the man who
| designed these figures. Indeed, everywhere
| in these old lands there is wealth of magma
lion and OF reasonable power of expression
which startles one more and more In exact
| proportion as he increases his familiarity with
| it, Edtodrd King, in Boston Journal.
!
STRENGTH OF GREEK SOLDIERS.-The phyS-
! cal superiority of the ante-AleXandrian Greeks
| to the hardest and most robut nations of mod
ern times is perhaps best illus rated by the mil
author OF the "AnabaSIs," the complete ac
| coutrelnents of Spartan soldier, in what W..
| would call heavy marching order, weighed Is
pounds, exclusive of the camp mining and
bridge building tools, and the rations of bread
and dried fruit which were issued in weekly
lnStalme nts, and increased the burden of the
| Infantry soldier to 3d. 95, or even to a full l0H
| pounds. This load was often carried at the
rate of four English miles an hour for twelve
hours per diem day after day: and only in the
| burning deserts of southern Syria the com
| mander OF the Grecian auXiliaries thought it
| prudent to she rten the usual length of a DAVIS
march by one fourth. The gymnastic tests ap-
pied by the syStdrchus, or recruiting officer of
| a picked corps, would appear even more pre-
| pOSfprOuS n the