Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-01
hons, and he returned to make the best pre-
partitions he could to meet q calamity he
knew to be thraafaninn

The next morning the storm fell upon the
military mob in q surprise that spread con
sternation and death in every direction. Men
at = a. N. were shot while preparing break
fast, and bayoneted in their tents. 1t was
the most frightful confusion and slaughter.
There was one point that was not sur
prised, and at which our troops fought with
cool stubborness that had not been shaken
by surprise. It happened to be the key
point of the situation held by Colonel Worth
ington, and around this the few men that
could be rallied fought that long fearful day.
The rest Of the army with Sherman and, l
suppose, Grant was huddled under the bank
of the river where the gun boats with their
heavy pieces, afford protection.
1t was luck alone that brought Buell. and
Nelson with their twenty-five thousand men
within hearing of the guns that sent their
continuous roar over thirty miles. these
gallant officers and God never created brav-
er, truer, or more able men-pushed on, and
arrived in time to save what criminal negl-
gence had endangered.
Grant and Sherman ought to have been
court-martialed and shot. Instead of this
Colonel Tom Worthington was courtmar-
tailed and cashiered. Had the old man
like Buell., Nelson, and thousand others
ment would have been rewarded with pro
motion; but his honest wrath and indignation
knew no bounds. On all occasions he de-
nounced in the most profane manner the
conduct of the inebriates, his superior officers,
and he was disgraced.
The court land we ere 6eginning to learn
what a court-martial is-had it's findings set
on the ground of its being unlawfully or
gained, or, to use palmer term, packed;
but President Lincoln, instigated thereto by
Halleck, dismissed Tom Worthington from
the service.
Grant and Sherman in the lying were
forced to admit that by the gallant resist
ance of the extreme right the army was
saved, but they make no mention of Worth
ington, and Sherman in his work of fiction
called Memoirs, slurs over one-half and lies
outright about the rest.
These facts that have hastily recited are
historical, and can not be doubted, let alone
disputed. The military culprits in com
mand have to admit-what every officer who
survived that fearful day are ready to state.
To have it, however, demonstrated, I give
you here letter from General Beauregard,
who was in comm1nd after the gallant John
ston fell wounded. He says
New ORLEANS, January %, 1878.
DEAR SIR: Your favor Of the 22d inst has
just been received, &c.
Willingly state that the stubborn defense
of position on the extreme right of the feder-
! al line delayed our advance sufficient to pre-
vent an earlier rout of the federal army than
occurred on April 6, 1862, thus giving time to
part of Buell's achievements to arrive on the
field, at Pittsburg Landing, just previous to
the attack about P. M of the confederates
on that last stronghold of the federals.
infer from official federal reports, to which
I have been lately referred that the position on
the extreme right, above alluded to, was held
by the forty-sixth Ohio, Colonel Thomas Worth
ington. And the sixth Iowa, Lieutenant
Colonel Cummings, on his left. T. w.
Should be in Washington at the period
stated by you, will be glad to make your &C
quaintance, and confer with you further rela-
tive to the bloody battles of Shiloh. remain,
yours very respectfully.
P. T.. BEAUREGARD.
Colonel Thomas Worthington, Morrow, Warren
County, Ohio.
And now while Sherman rolls by in his
equipage-the fool of luck, paid an enor-
nous salary for doing nothing-and is fol-
lowed and fattered by the crowd, this brave
old man, whose past gitters with an achieve
ment that saved an army, and perhaps the
republic, is left to penury and rags. He can
net even get an honest claim paid, based on
service of an important sort rendered the
government in the beginning of the war.
Can the republic afford to treat its children
in this unjust and inhuman manner?