The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-22


aneT In the testimony, and suggested
tn court be reconvened. The same
yez<licf and sentence were found by
tie eourt, and the proceedings were
a8sln disapproved by General Kel-
W. ND the papers again forwarded
70 We War Department. Secretary
StaH fon was very much excited and
81 {ly displeased, and at once or
dez General Halleck to review the
paQeFs. General HaIleck endorsed
uIsu the papers that the findings of
tlle purt were erroneous, and that
Genaal Kelly was right in disap-
proving the sentence. Colonel Bay
l0r vas, therefore. remanded to the
statu4Df prisoner of war and sent
back 70 Fort McHenry, and was soon
after Exchanged.
Z some time afterward President Linz
e9th R.fned the particulars of the
peculiar case, and sent telegram to
GeneralKelIy, thanking him for his
action inEhe matter, and saying he
was glad to know an officer of his
army hadshe courage to do right in
spite of prdudice and public clamor.
OF this conlnendation from the great
humanitarian, General Kelly was and
isjustly proud. Colonel Baylor keen
ly appreciated the wisdom and deter
mination ofpis preserver, and has
shown his gratitude at various times
and in many ways. Not long after
Colonel BaylG was exchanged and
had assumed ais former command,
he was severely wounded in action
by being shot through the body.
This disabled him from active duty
in the field, AMI he was sent to the
rear and assigned to post duty. In
February. 1865 Generals Kelly and
Crook were caltured at the Barnum
and Revere Hptels, in this city, by
sixty-five Confederate soldiers be-
longing to the Command of Captain
John HansonMcNeill, who was NOR
tally wounded in the Valley of Vir-
ginia, Octobe- 4, 1864. His son Jesse,
then first lieutenant of the COM
pany. ambitious of promotion, de,
termined to attempt the capture of
Major Generals Kelly and Crook,
then in command of the federal force
in this city (which numbered about
5000 men( who were encamped on
the hills back of the present Queen
City Hotel, and not far from the Fair
ground, on Vinegar Hill. The COM
maad virtually devolved on John b.
Fay and Sprigg S. Lynn, of this
city, vino captured General Kelly at
the old Barnum House, now the
Windsor Hotel, and General Crook
at the Revere House, now the ST..
James Hotel. General Rutherford
B. Hayes, the President, was then
in this city, his headquarters being
at the Potomac House, on South Me-
chcnic street. On the arrival of the
detachment having the two generals
in charge at Harrisonburg, in the
Valley of Virginia, the commandant
of the post was found to be Colonel
Baylor, and when the officer reported
to him that he had two federal gen.
erals as prisoners, Colonel Baylor lit
being late at night, inquired who
they were. The officer answered they
were Crook and Kelly. "Whatw ~
said he. "Kelly, of West Virginia" |?
"Yes." replied the officer. He at once
approached General Kelly, and re-
ceived him in the most cordial man
ner. AS soon as possible he made
every provision for their accOmmoda-
ton and comfort; telegraphed to
Richmond advising the military au-
thoritles there who General Kelly
was, and what he had done for him,
and asked that he be supplied with
all the comforts to be had, and grant
ed all the liberty possible consistent
with his safety as prisoner of war.
This was all done, so that the Gener-
ais course in regard to Colonel Bay
lor was ''like bread cast upon the
waters, which returned after many
days" General Kelly and wife visi-
ted Colonel Baylor in the summer of
1873 at home, in Jefferson county
West Virginia, where he was treated
with every courtesy, on account of
their peculiar and very friendly re-
lations during the war.
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