Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-28
FIGHTING IT OVER AGAIN.
GEN. HALLEoK,s DEEP FEELING
GEN. GRANT.
GEN. Wallace Says Haileck was
Envious OF Grant. and Gen. ROyn-
tom COntradicts tho Charge.


ton COntradicts tho Charge.
A dispatch from Cincinnati on We'd
day afternoon week says: General Lew
Wallace, in an interview in the CONNER
oial-. Gazette on Monday, having said that
General Halleck was envious of General
Grant, and would have been willing to
allow Washington to fall into Lees hands
In order to crush Grant, General Boynton
replied in his Washington correspon-
dence, quoting from records tending to
disprove Gen. Wallace's action. Another
interview with Gen. Wallace appears to-
day, in which he cites Halleck's treatment
of Grant after the battle of Fort Donelson,
and again after the battle of Shiloh, to show
that Halleck had deep feeling against
Grant, and that when the tables were
turned and General Grant was COM
mander of all the armies and Halleck
only chief of staff, with close relations
with President Lincoln and Secretary
Stanton, General Halleck would be in
position to use his power to GRANTS in
Jury. He then goes on to show how this
was done by saying that Halleek did
not notify Grant of the coming of EARLY;
that he (Wallace) personally ordered the
Reconnaissance which discovered Eurly's
intentions; that General Ricketts, who, as
Boynton said, was sent by Grant through
Halieck's suggestion to meet Early was
ordered to Harper's Ferry TO relieve
Siegel and, upon learning from Wallace
of the approach of Early, put himself
under Wallace's orders and with him
fought tho battle of Monocacy.
s'This," he says, twill serve 20 show
several important faots first, Gen. Ricketts,
.oI DO 30. in
way of reinforcements. Second, that l
had no knowledge of his coming until
his advance was stopped by my guards ut
the bridge and that in fact he was not
sent to me but TO Harper's Ferry. If
Halleck believed that Siegel and | were
to be attacked why send but one division
not exceeding 5000 men to meet an army
reported at 80 900 veterans, unless it was
to make show of resistance to the
capture of Washington. Ricketts, force
with mine was sufficient to meet u
raiding party and that was all.
The battle of Monocacy took place on
the 9th of July. As was following my
troops off the field in retreat about $50
o'clock in the evening, l stopped and
dictated o telegram directed TO General
Halleck informing him of the events of
the day that was in retreat that in my
Judgment there were about $4,000 men
who had been fighting us, and that there
was still large body to be seen behind
them, in the vicinity, Frederick City
that the enemy had been contending for
the Washington pike. l concluded with
the remark that it would require all his
energies to save Washington. l also sent
a dispatch by the same messenger to
either General Grant or Secretary
Stanton. My recollection is that it was
sent to Grant. While General Ricketts,
and myself were lying in fence corner
trying to get some sleep about midnight
of the battle, we were awakened by a
messenger with q telegram from Halleck,
directed to me. l read it, my recol-
lection is, by the light of burn
ing matches. It informed me, as
now remember, among other things, that
was removed from the command of the
department and that General Ord had
been sent down to relieve me. This action
was not from General Grant but from
General Halleck. Within q few days
after being thus relieved, received an
order from General Grant at City Point,
restoring me to the command and inform
ing me that General Ord had b cen in
structed to report at Washington and
wait for orders. OF course those orders
were obeyed. General Ord went to WASH
ington and resumed command. BY
mail I received a private note from
General Grant inviting me when my de-
partment was clear of the rebels to visit
him at City Point for couple of weeks
bringing my horse which did, spending
q couple of weeks very pleasantly ms his
guest, riding with him and observing the
operations in front of Petersburg.
The point of all this l stop to make.
Gen. Boynton says it was Grant and not
Halleck who removed me. If the records
should substantiate Boynton's statement,
il will remain a mystery to me forever
why Gen. Grant should have restored me
so soon to the same command and fol-
lowed it by an invitation which was his
first friendly unofficial communication,
verbally or in writing, to me after the
battleof Shiloh. The removal was mark
of disapprobation in the severest form.
The restoration was an unmistakable
commendation, strengthened still further
by the private note Of invitation. What
was there to disapprove of, except that
by the battle the enemy's operation
and movements had been interrupted.
Gen. Wallace goes on to say that in
the midst of the engagement of McCooks
command in the defence of Washington
with the enemy, Halleck permitted Presi-
dent Lincoln to ride out in his carriage to
see what was going on, showing that the
President had no knowledge of the great
danger overhanging the Capitol. He
makes the point, too, that General Grant,
when really notified of the danger to
Washington, did not stop with sending
single division but hurried forward the
greater portion of two army corps. Cen
eral Wallace closes by saying SIN my
Judgment there are but two alternatives
which present themselves under all the
circumstances of the case as they appear
to me; one that General Halleck was an
imbecile, the other, that he was allowing
his jealousy to lead him down to the seri-
ous injury of his country"
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