The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-04-21


S%:/< which he now says he
never saw. Well, I may be mistaken, and that
the Corp1 knight that Kearny spoke about
was not the same person as the present Sergt
Knight. If so beg the Sergeants pardon; for
/ thought the scout had never seen what he
was reporting about, but did not like to tell the
General that.
And then, again. when the same scout made
his report to the General of the surroundings
of Annandale, with its church and ALL the
General reported to me, was so like the report
of Serg't Knight in the Oct. 8, 1892, number Of
your paper, that thought 1T was made by the
same person; but if | was wrong, | hope the
Sergeant will please excuse me. But still
claim the authorship of that map in the War
Department that is credited on its margin as
furnished by Gen. Kearny.
AS to my selling the map to Gen. Rearny,
had ] not perfect right to sell Or give away to
anyone / chose my own property, as l was
not then in the employ OF the Government, but
was simply refugee from my home to the
Union army for protection, and was doing
what / could, voluntarily, to aid them in so
doing? And had not Gen. kearny as perfect a
right to buy the same and give it to the War
Department, and have it credited as furnished
by him, if he SO chose? And if | chose to change
my mind from giving it to Mcclellan, with
whom had not exchanged word, and sell it
to Gen Kearny for the money he chose to pay
me for it, and that, too, when had to run from
home without a dollar In my pocket, where
was to blame2 ] think somebody gaps at a
gnat and swallows a camel.
As to Knights criticism of the Quaker
Scout" and saying that Lewis Gillipgham told
him four years ago that it was his father,
Chalk!cy Gillingham, who blew the horn Civ
ing the alarm to the Home Guards and not
himself and that his father was cited before
the church for committing an "act OF war;" /
only told the tale it was told TO me the
same afternoon by one of the actors in the
affair in the Provost Marshal's Office in Alex
andria, in the presence Of the prisoners; but |
understand from good authority that Lewis
Gilingham now says that he was away from
home at tho time and that his sister Hannah
blew the horn and gave the alarm, and that he
returned home soon after and joined in the
chase.
And again, it seems passing strange that
Chaikley should be called to account for a
thing he did not do, and all of the members
knew al the time he did not, and at the same
| time l. a prominent member of the meeting,
and a regular attendant, when circumstances
allowed ME to, until Christmas, 1869, when |
| removed TO Iowa, taking with me a certificate
| to the Marietta Monthly Meeting, in Marshall
! County Iowa, certifying me to be n member in
good standing in the Society, and who not
| only sounded an alarm but Joined in all the
| melee of the war, and was never found farlt
| with for the part l took, that | ever knew.
| And not only me, but do not think there was
| n solitary member of Woodlawn Meeting, who
was old enough, that could say his or her skirts
| were clean enough for the same for to be able
| to throw the first stone.
Ny only object III writing about the Accotink
| Home Guard was to show that there was
community Of Northern settlers in Virginia,
mostly Quakers who with their col0red allies,
| mostly descendants of the freed slaves Of Gen.
! Washington who stood firm for the Union
| amidst dangers and trials that but few had to
| encounter, and not only guarded their own
! nrouertv but stood outpost constantly on
| guard for the Union Army in that direction.
| never saw Sergeant knight to know him,
| and therefore have nothing but good will for
! him. ] only claim my own, and am willing
all others shall have theirs. Right wrongs no
| one
| do not remember the exact time that KearDy
came to Bishop Johns's house, but it was soon
| after Gen. Mcclellan assumed command of the
! Army of the Potomac, as almost his first order
prohibited any one from passing out OF his
| lines without pass from his headquarters, and
! the first knew OF the order attempted TO 90
| ont on Il PASS from Gen. Franklin, whose head
| quarters were then east Of the Seminary. was
arrested by the pickets On the Accotink Turn
| pike, near Edward Gibbs's, and sent to Gen.
| Kearny's headquarters at the Bishop Johns
| house. and from thence was sent by Gen.
| Kearny to Gen. Franklin's and there released,
and told that i was arrested in obedience
| to recent order of Mcclellan From
that time commenced my acquaintance with
| Gen. Kearny, which was always very pleasant
to mo, and / have every reason to believe it
| was reciprocal.
Thanks, Serg't Knight, for your criticism of
| the "Artistica Quaker" in The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE; and, although intended as dig at
me, yet / again thank you for it. / am not now
nor have l ever been bay window" or q
"broad. brimmed-hat Quaker" am just what
/ am; nothing more and l hope nothing less.
| Good by, Serg't knight, Scout of the Army of
the Potomac hope you may enjoy many a
return of New Year's.-JogATHAN ROBERTS,
Clarksboro, n. J.
| Wants Correspondence.