The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-03-29

amount alleged to be due Badeau for
writing Grants Memoirs. In reply
to Badeau's allegations, Col. Fred.
Grant produces letter from his fa-
ther, discharging Badeau from his
employ. We copy from a recent let
ter Of Gen. Boynton to the CONNER
cial Gazette the following dimensions
of 'Gen." Badeau:
''In the early part of March, 1870,
the Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Gazette cal,d on Presi-
dent Grant in pursuance of an ap
polntment made by General Logan to
receive General Grants statement of
the facts attending the contem plated
removal of General Thomas just be-
fore the battle of Nashville, and the
issuing of an order for General Logan
to supersede him. This visit was
made at the earnest personal request
of General Logan, who desired some
recognized friend Of General Thomas
to obtain the true story and publish
it, to meet certain statements then in
circulation that General Logan had
intrigued with General Grant to OBJ
tain command Of the Army of the
Cumberland in place of Thomas. This
story wholly unjust to Logan. Gen.
eral Grant readily agreed to tell the
story Of Nashville. The correspond
ent went to his Office and wrote it out,
and then gave it to General Logan
with the request that he would take
it to the President for revision. The
latter said that it was written as he
had given it, but that his thinking
over the matter had made it clearer
in his mind, and he had concluded
that the fairest thing to all concerned
would be to give the correspondent all
the official correspondence in the case.
He therefore directed General Badeau.
then serving at the White House as
his military secretary, to prepare cop
les of all the official dispatches con-
nected with the matter, and give them
to the correspondent. This Badeau
proceeded to do, and some days after
wards produced what he declared to
be the complete official history of the
contemplated removal of General
Thomas. Access to the war records
at that day was by no means a usual
thing, and the appearance of what
was supposed to be the full official re-
cord of the move against General
Thomas attracted very wide attention.
The dispatches furnished were so full
a vindication of Thomas that his
friends were delighted with their ap-
pearance.
About two weeks after their ap-
pearance the correspondent was sur
prised and panied to receive letter a
from General Thomas headquarters
at San Francisco asking if everything
furnished from the White House had
been printed. The tone of the letter
was such as to show that the publica-
hon was incomplete in some impor-
ant and essential particulars, and
hat there was deep feeling about it.
inquiry Of General Badeau only elicit
ID the reply that he had furnished
verything of consequence, and that
lis collection Of dispatches was COM
lete. A few days later the telegraph
rought the news of General Thom-
s. sudden death.
The facts, as now known to his
riends, are that the dispatches fur
ished by Badeau were far from COM
lete. and that he had deliberately
oppressed fifteen dispatches of the
reatest consequence to General
homas' side Of the case, and the very
les in which he took the greatest
:ide as affording him the fullest vim
cation.
This outrageous treatment proper
enraged General Thomas. He
afed under it, and brooded over it
the crowning indignity offered him,
d as stab inflicted out of the sight
the public and under the guise of
ing him full justice. A few days
er he determined to write full ac-
unit of the matter for the public.
confidential staff officer gathered =
, official material and left him at
desk engaged upon his work. A
lie later on returning b, found him
the floor in fit Of apoplexy. He a
yer rallied. The excitement of the
rk upon which he was engaged had
led him. Badeau still insisted that
full history had been given. 1t
J not until year later, and after
ny failures, that the correspondent
naged to obtain the suppressed dis -
ches. They were found and print
1t length without the help of Ba- N J
u, and to his confounding and ever ada9a1
ing shame.
or long time there was bitter -
ing between the intimate friends
Thomas and Grant since the for \
held the latter responsible with eie'
eau for this work. But at length Hee Hie
responsibility for all that was de- SIX Sa
rate in it was laid where it doubt wRif Rdiff
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