The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-21
A BIG CONTROVERSY
OVER uA1LEoK's BEHAVIOR
Toward General Grant = JsalOu'y Ct the
Great CORmaudsr Alleged General Lew
Wallace Makes Some Specific Charges.
The Danger Of the Capital.

Z Wallace makes Some Specific ChaIgsI
/ The Danger Of the Capital,
ClNcISNATI, Jan. 2O.-General Lew Wal.
lace, in an interview in the Commercial.
Gatstc, having said that General Halleck
WAS envious OF General Grant and would
t have been willing to allow Washington to
+ have fallen into LeO's hands in order to
e crush Grant, General BoyRton replied in
4 hib Washington correspondence, quoting
from records tending to disProve General
WallRCas assertion. Another interview
i with General Wallace appears TODAY, In
8 which he cites HRlleCk's treatment Of Gem
, eral Grant after the bsttel OF Donelson,
) and again alter the battel OF Shiloh, TO
show that HalleCk had o deep feeling
+. against Grant, and that when The tables
. wore turned and Grant was commander
3 oi all the armies, and HalleCk only Chief
/ OF Stat, with close relations with Presi.
, dent Lincoln and Secretary Stanton, Gem
eral HAlleCk would be In position 10 use
J his power TO Gralt's injury,
, He then goes on TO show how this was
done by saying that HalleCk did not notify
Grant OF the coming OF Early; that he
(WallRCe) personally ordered the recon.
noisRRCe which discovered Early's inten.
tious that General Ricketts,, who, as Royn-
ton said, was sent by Grant through Hal.
eck's suggestion to meet Early, was
ordered to Harper's Ferry to relieve
sigel, and upon learning from Wallace OF
tue approach OF Early, put himself under
Wallace's ordera, and with him fought the
battle OF MonoCaCy.
wALLAoEs STORY.
"This," Wallace says, twill serve 10
show several important facts; FiHt-Gsn.
eral Ricketts, was not sent to report to me,
or in the way Of reinForcements; second,
that had no knowledge Of his coming
until his advance wss stopped by nv
guard at the BRIDGE and that In fact lie
was not sent to me, but to Harper's Fer.
~. II IIallsck believed that Sgel and l
were to be attacked, why send but one .
division Of not to exceed five thousand
men, TO meet an army reported at thirty
thousand veterans, unless 1t was to make
chow OF resistance 10 the capture OF
Washington Ricketts, force, with mine,
was sufficient to meet ralding party and
that was all.
The battle Of MonoCaCy took place on
the 9th OF July. As was following my
troops olrth field in retreat, about half
after 3 o'clock In the evening, stopped
and dictated telegram directed to General
HalleCk, informing him Of the events Of
the day that was In retreat that In my
Judgment there was about eighteen thou
sand men who had been fighting us, and
there was still a large body to be Been he.
hind them, in the vicinity Of Frederick City
and that the enemy had been contending
lor tho Washington pike. concluded
with the remark that II would require all
bis energies to save Washington. | also
sent dispatch by the same messenger to
either General Grant or Secretary Stan.
ton. My recollection Is 1t was sent 10
Grant.
nALLEcK's TELEGRAM.
"While General Ricketts, and myself
we're lyingin fence corner trying to get
some sleep, about midnight Of the battle,
we were awakened bya messenger with
telegram from Halleck directed 10 me.
read II, my recollection is, by the light OF
burning matches. II 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 order
was not from General Grant, but from
General HalleCk. Within few days after
being thus relieved, received an order
from General Grant at City Point, restor-
ing me to the command, and informing
me that General Ord had been instructed
TO report at Washington and walt for or
ders. OF course those orders were obeyed.
General Ord went 10 Washington, and
resumed command. By mail received q
private note from General Grant inviting
ne, when my department was clear Of the
rebels, TO visit him for o couple OF weeks
at City Point, bringing my horse with me;
which ! did, spending couple Of weeks
very pleasantly as his guest, riding with
him aud observing tho operations 10 front
OF Petersburg.
BoYNToN's INCONSISTENCIES.
"The point Of all this stop now 10
make. General Boynton says 1t was Gen.
eral Grant, and not General Halleck, who
removed me. II the records should sub.
stantiate General Boynton's statement, 1t
willremain mystery TO me forever why
General Grant should have restoredIme 90
soon to the same command, and followed
II by an invitation which was Ills frat
friendly unofficial communication, YER
bally or In writing to me, after the battle
ofShiloh. The removal was mark Of dis
appreciation In the seyerest form. The
restoration was an unmistakable COM
mendatlon, strengthened still further by
the private note oil invitation. What was
there 70 dilapproye, except that by the
battle the enemy's operation and move.
ments had been interrupted2"
General Wallace goes on 10 say that In
the midst Of the engagements Of McCook'a
command In the delenses OF Washington
with the enemy, Halleck permitted Presi.
dent Lincoln 10 ride out In his Carripge to
SEQ what was going on, showing that the
President had no knowledge Of the great
danger overhanglng the capital. He
makes tho point, too, that General Grant,
when really notified Of the danger to
Washington, did not atop with sending
single division, but hurried forward the
greater portion Of two army corps. Gen.
eral Wallace closes by saying:
I'm my judgment there are but two al.
ternatives which present themselves under
all the circumstances Of the case as they
appear 10 me. One Is that General Hal.
lsCk was ali imbeClls the other, that he
was allowing his jealousy TO lead him down
to the serious injury Of his country.
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