, 1880-08-25
WAS HE A. BRUTE +?
A Question OF Interest to
Soldiers and Humane
People,.
AS Touching the Character
Of Gen. Winfield S.
Hancock.
Did He Punish Men for Daring to
Ask for Water to
Drink?
And Curse and Swc.,r ut
Them for Qucncl,ing
Their Thirst?
A Plain-Spoken Wisconsin Vet
eran Officer Gives in His
Testimony.
|,s f.,
He Was The Lieutenant Who Allowed
His Men to Fill Their
Cantcens,
And Whom Hancock Called "a
Cd DID Pretty Officer"
for So Doing.
How Hancock, in His Rage, Revcngcd
Himself on the Entire Regi-
ment,
by Glring Them Doublc.Qnlck Drill for
an Hour In tlo Dlnzlng
SIM.
The Man Who Denied These Statements
Shown to Be 4 Liar and
Fraud.
How Hancock, in His Rage, Revcngcd
Himself on the Entire Regi-
ment,
by Glring Them Doutlc.Qnlck Drill for
Ill Hour In tl,o Blazlng
SIM.
Tho Man Who Denied These Statements
Shown to Be Liar and
Fraud.


MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. :4.--So fur as Tho
soldiers of Wisconsin arc concerned, ind, 1t
inhy safely he said, OF tho cnirc Northwest,
the great lMnjorlty Of them, irrespective of
party, will not only vote fur Gen. Garfield,
tho Republican nominee for the Presidency,
but tlloy will work agalnst Hancock with
tint ytgor and pcrsistency which they ac-
u1Iired by four years of campaigning during
tic Rebellion. There arc several rcasons for
this. bnt only one Will be mentioned III this
artlclc-namcly: tho unsollferly. aid lcart-
less. manner III which Hancock treated his
1llen during tho late War.
There Is no earthly doubt Of the truiri df
tho charges Of cruelty preferred ugalnst
Hancock, for They come nn,ost stinultanc-
os,s'y froin, three different States, ard are
supported by tho testimony Of soldiers hut
tltcds Of miles apart, bntll Democrat ait! 1sc-
thu close Of tho War.
THE NATURE s}E THESE CHARGES
can bc quickly explained, but the disastrous
effects Of them will not be generally UNDER
stool. Old friends always sta,Ml By each
other In trouble, alul even III wrong-tloing.
III i1iIs sa,nc way soldters always stand ready
to tefctul their comrades or officers from at-
tuck, even. though tho attack: nlny be
deserved. When. therefore, charges arc
made against n soldier wlicl, nro If slcli Il
nature tllat all Ills co,nratles turn agninst
Him. tho effect, In Il c;.se lllso tho ono ,,Etcr
II
trcnc. but t'Es is ltut ull. These clsnrgcs
aru not only int1orscd by soldiers, but they
''aso bctr matte by soldiers; l,nye l>ctl
truInpetctt from county to county, with
constantly increasing Endorsements as to
their truth, by soldiers; they wcre known
and remembered only by soldiers; could
l'ave been given to tic public In their pres
clt ftcontravertible form only by soldiers,
md they will i,lyU widespread a,ul fatal
effect upon tho soldier yotu turl,1g tho coI,l.
luz campAtg1l, ~ fur ns Ten. 1lu,lcock IL c0ll-
cerneu.
THE F1llsr cI1AuGEs
Of hcart1css, and unsol.Icry conduct to-
wnrd his lale,t wero ,1a.lo ags,inst Hancock
by the Into Dr. Alfred l.. Cnstlcn,all, NJ, cn,.
lnent physician, who was well known dur
Ing period of forty ycars i'll this city and
vicinity. They were not merely verbal
charges: but tho Doctor l,ad tho har.thootl
to put tl'cm into book, which WIS pub
lEshctl fifteen years ngu,-long before any
QUO hui over dreamed that 1Iancock wnull
co'ic Dcforu thu public bcggIng for soldiers
votes. Tho booll WIS widely read ut tho
Tine, and generally ntlorscd by tho sntIcrs,
for tllcro was nothing wlateyer In 1t that
conll hu tortured into politics. Neithcr
Hancock nor MY Ut Ills friends tlenIelt Or Ut
tempted to deny tho damaging charges
printed therein l'y lr. Castlcllun. After Tic
"s.tprrb"' Goneral lla!l bcen nominated for
President by thu stkhern Imrtlon Of tho
Democratic lnrty, a1,tl tho locnl Republican
papers Ut, Wisconsin, remembering tito
cllaryes, recently rcpublisllcl tho nEore
prominent portion Ut them, then tho men
who werB never south Uf Nlas0n anl Dix0n's
linz begun to deny that lInncock WIS ever
anything but II mollel ot kindness aud tell
tlrrnrss.
III. c.AsTI.EsIAN
was Surgeon OF tho Fifth Wisconsin; an able,
wel!-"lucatrd physician; II Christian gentle-
ma,.. ami ktntl-hcartctl, generous l.i.lI. 4as
such lle c0,lll not l.o!tl Its peace. After he-
lux witness Ut tho brutal and u1lsoldicrly
treatment which tho commanding ot,lcur,
{ien llancoek, hal piled upon the mountain
ri all tho othor sutferlngs Of tho soldEers.
urlsIng from hcat. fatigue, tack OF foatl. and