The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-24


your dsgraceul conduct at SHILOH and your shameful
exit from your command at Fort Buford, and when
proper occasion offers will the information stop
your career Of mposture."
Thus Gen. HAzENs own specifications
bear out the theory OF an interchange OF
roles between accused and accuser, by in
Guiding not only his accusations against
STANLEY, but STANLEYs against him. His
sixth specification even rectes at length
SrANLEY's eleven specifications OF 1877, under
the latters charge that HAZEN had borne
false witness in the BELKNAP impeachment,
charge which HAYES declared that 1t
would not subserve the interests OF the SER
vice to try. His twelfth specification shows
that STANLEY told reporter of the Nep
York Times that HAzEN had relatives and
other people in Washington trying to make
him n quartermastcr-genera but should
HAYES send his name to the Senate, said
STANLEY, che will meet charges of perjury
and cowardlce which l have made TO his
face in the newspapers, and in official state
mcnts." He added that HAzEN skulkcd at
Shiloh and fled four miles from where his
brigade was fighting; that he was also re-
ported to him for cowardice at Picketts
Mills while he (STANLEY) was in command of
the Fourth Corps. The three specifications
under the second charge are mainly new
classllcatons of the specifications under
the first charge.
To say that STANLEY acknowledged the
accusations thus imputed to him, con-
veys an imperfect idea; he insisted on
them. What he denied was doing any
thing unbecoming an officer and gentle
man, or prejudicial TO good order and
discipline. Thus the singular spectacle is
seen OF n defendant accused OF defamiug,
not softenng the insulting words attributed
to him, but seeking TO intensity them. And
at one point, where his counsel dwelt on the
charge of mposturc. No, no." interrupted
STANLEY rising with emotion, "there is i'm
posture which lasts for day or n week inn
posture which lasts for month. and impos-
ture which lasts for eternity The man who
builds monument to commemorate such an
imposture is the greatest OF all impostors
known" This he said, meaning the monu-
ment TO the men of HAzENs brigade put up
at Stone River which was not "erected
where they fell" since, as Gen. WOOD testi-
fled, his own brigade fought there, and the
erection uf the monument created a good
deal Of feeling among the soldiers who
served under me; for II any part of HAzEN's
brigade ever got on that ground, it was after
the battle was over" The monument was put
where the Confederate rush was checked,
and where WOODS men checked It.
without fully rehearsing the volumlnous
testimony thus far given for the defence. we
can easily in iicate how it goes. Gen. CRIT
TESDEN, Colonel OF the Seventeenth Infan-
try. had heaid HAzENs testimony at the
BELKNAP trial discussed by the officers OF
the army, and 1.-The general impression
made in their minds was unfavorable to
Gen. HAZES," which impression. added Gen.
CRIrrESDEN, he fully shared. Gen. MCCooK,
I.ieutenant-Colonel of the Tenth Infantry.
saw HAZEN at Shiloh. He was in the rear
OF my division, alone and on foot, and was
approaching me. | asked him what he was
doing. He said he had lost his brigade.
told him where he could find it," Gen SLo-
CUM testified that HAZEN volunteered his
BELKNAP trial testimony about post trader
ships, having come before the committee on
another matter Gen. WooD testified that
when his command crossed the river at
Pittsburg Landing, on the way TO Shiloh
battlefield, he saw HAZEN on the bank.
"Yonder is HAzEN," said Gen. GILLEAI, and
rode of to speak 10 him. Gen. WooD also
testified that at Pickett's Mills in 1864, he
ordered in HAZEN's brigade, and afterward
found HAZEN himself in the rear, while
part OF his troops were engaging the enemy.
| The Lieutenant Colonel OF the Nuety-third
! Ohio, one Of HAZEN's regiments in this fight
said that he himself withdrew the brigade
from hot fire, on its repulse, because nobody
could find its commander who, however,
was afterward discovered by him three hun
drcd yards to the rear, in a ravinc, going
Off TO the right from behind very
large tree" the enemy being at the left.
| Gen. WHITAKER, who commanded the Sixth
Kentucky Infantry in the battle testified
that HAzEN was missed during the fight,
and Gen. NELSON offered a reward Of $50 TO
the soldier who should find his body. The
next day WHITAKER saw HAzEN, and ask
ing him where he had been the day before,
was told that he had been ito the river"
Medical Director MURRAY OF BULLS army
found HAzEN during the battle half mile
from the river and slowly moving toward IT,
HAzEN said TO him: I'm ruined man; I've
lost my brigade; they are all scattered; |
don't know where they are" Col. BRUCE
reformed one of HAzEN's broken regiments
Dehlnu MS own brigade, at onion, no gen
eral officer being with them; afterward HA-
ZEN explained to BRUCE that his brigade had
been cut to pieces, that he could not find it,
and so had gone back to the Landing. Capt
STEELE Of the regiment in question testified
that HAZEN's absence was talked OF by sol
diers; while another of HAzEN's Captains. a
quaint farmer considered the General "a
good citizen. but little too nervous FOL
war" Gen. SHERIDAN also identified an ex-
tract from his report at Mission Ridge say
ing that while his division was pushing
ahead Gen. HAzEN and his brigade en-
ployed themselves in collecting the artillery
from which my men had driven the enemy
and have claimed it as their capture"
As the evidence is not all in, 1t is fair tC
suspend judgment; hut enough is already
known TO illustrate HAYEs's conduct in de
Gliding not 10 have STANLEY's charges against
HAzEN heard by a court martial, sending
him Off, instead, on an excursion in Europ,
for the study OF the Russo-Turkish war.
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