The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-26
THE REnELL1oN RECORDS.


Beginning of the investigation of she Charge
Made by MIR. Grosvenor.
WAsHINGTcN, March pa subcommittee OF
the House military committee to day began the
investigation of alleged insertion in the Rebellion
Records of unofficial matter, set out in the
Grosvenor resolution. Lieut.. Col. Fl. NJ La
zelle, in charge of the publication. the first
witness. Mr.. Cutcheon called his attention TO
the appendix of Vol. Xxx, Part 2, Series l, Of the
Rebellion Records giving what purported to be
a list of the members of the Anderson Cavalry,
Pennsylvania, who went to the front and en-
gagged in the battle of Murfreesboros The wit
said that Oct. l last the senior clerk of
his Office came to him and said that Chief Clerk
Tweedale, of the War Department desired to
have the names of the members of that organ
ization, of which he was member, Incorporated
in the records. and that he would reque st the
Governor OF Pennsylvania 10 furnish the list.
If the Governor did not furnish it, he would get
the information himself. On Oct. 20 the list of
names was received from the Adintapt
general, which the certificates stated had
been made from the official report to Gen.
Rosecrans, and has been carefully compared
with the official records of the Office and found
to be correct. Such certificates had always been
regarded su ffcient basis for publication of
other rolls Of honor, AID the tablet had been in
cIuded In the publication on ike certlhcateS A
part of the Endorsement stated that the list had
heen copied from the Philadelphia Enquirer of
Feb. 16, 1868. but that excited no comment, be-
cause it was known that many newspapers had
published strictly correct reports during the
The witness did not examine the text of
the volume carefully, that was the duty of the
senior clerk, but he did ascertain that the body
of the volume would not furnish sufficient data
for the presentation of the list. Respecting the
apparent discrepancy between the list contained
in the body of the report and that contained IN
the appendix, the witness read from a number
of official reports to show the lack of
agreement between them as TO the actual
number OF members of the Anderson Cavalry
who went TO the front. With this Information IN
appear to be correct but it's correctness al
so verified by careful comparison with the
body of the volume. After the newspaper state
ments had appeared the witness represented to
Mr.. Tweedale the Importance of having the pa
pers examined, ana he agreed to- have 1t done,
but he had not heard from him since. To Gen.
Grosvenor the witness said he had been told that
newspaper slips had been filed in the depart
ment with the papers of Captain Burt He did
not know, himself, whether the list was correct
or not, nor did he know whether there were any
official reports from Gen. Rosecrans IN the de-
partment containing the list of names In Vol.
Xxx, Part l, WAS a letter from Secretary Stanton
Rev. Mr.. Dyer, which the witness had found
in the stereotype forms and called to the alton
tion of the present Secretary as improper mat
ter. The Secretary said that its removal would
inserted by Col. Scott. The witness understood
that the letter had been furnished by Represen-
tative Kelley of Pennsylvania
Assistant Adiutant-general Keton, the next
witness. said all the people in the Adjntant gem
erals Office knew about the newspaper
slip was that it had been handed
in by Chief Clerk Tweedale, with
the request that it be compared with the
muster-rolls and verified. It had been COM
pared, verified, and certified. The witness pro-
duced the muster-rols TO show how the com
pilauion had been made There report
from General Rosecrans on file at the War De-
partment
Henry Douglas, chief clerk in the Adjutant-
generals Office, said he had compared the news
paper slip with the muster rolls. and made up
the list Of names in the appendix, but he had
not placed the caption it, nor had he stated
that it was made up from official reports 20
General Rosecrans. Upon being shown the
manuscript of tba list the witness said that IL
was not the list he made up. His recollection
was that all the names found in the newspaper
article had been found in the muster-rolls.
Mr.. Cutcheon. with the witness began q COM
parison between the list published in the
newspapers and the muster-rolls, with the result
that two names of persons set down as in the
battle could not be found on the muster-ros.