The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-05-12

TO him (Kearney) of the
surroundings Of Annandale, with its church
and ALL" / opine he means to says / lied to
Kearney. / am glad he has stated the time Of
these interviews with the General as being
after KcarHy had taken Bishop Johns's house
for his Headquarters for before that event oc-
Cured the General had gone at least over half
way between Annandae and Fairfax Court
house. and / had got the map filled in OF that
road as far as the first house east OF the village.
Anyone who knew Gen. Kearny we'll would
know how long 'Corpl knight" would have
lasted at his Headquarters had he been caught
in false reports j carried Duane's Map of
Northeastern Virginia" to Brooklyn, n. Y,
three years ago. and showed it to Peter CACTUS,
as no now spells his name and said to him ::
Is not this the zap we made for Gen.
Kearriy during the Fall of 1851 from Warning
ton GillinghaIn's map. that he furnished Gen.
Mcdowell before the first Bull Run Battie?"
CACTUS is the man whom Kcarny had de-
tailed from his company to place the data that
| brought in and he verified much Of it by
riding over the ground. where he could,
without going outside the lines, and
there were great many square miles Of
it inside. The Quaker Scout could not
possibly have made this map from the
time he, as he says, came into Alexandria
as refugee after the first Bull Run Battle un-
til he sold it to Kearny in December, 1861, as
that. The fact of his not being able to get out
side the pckets on Gen. Franklin's pass proves
. that much, unless he could sit in his room in
Alexandria and from memory make it.
When showed "Duane's Map" to CACTUS
he pointed to that section of it northwest and
west of Mt. Vernon, and said: II remember
you writing this; they have still kept it on
the map-'open country, with but little tim
ber.'"
From the fact that I furnished both the
Quaker Scout" and Joseph Stiles a tracing of
GilIingham's map it looks to me possible that
that what Kearny paid the $40 for was that
section of tho cOu-try from the Potomac River
to the Accotinc turnpike, which would include
both Cedar Grove" and the White House
Neck ;" from the hills of which "Corpl
Knight saw the Quaker Scouts children
PLAYING and reported to Kearny they were
rebel soldiers"
am very thankful to find the Quaker Scout
hated to tell the General 50. / don't dispute a
mans right to sell his own property. But
from what know of Gen. Kearny feel GER
tain he never asked to have " the information
from which this map is compiled " credited to
him the engineers did that. To man who
believes in every man having his just dues"
l would Just simply intimate in the most re-
spectful manner that DIR. Warrington Gilling-
ham should have some slight credit extended
to him. 1t looks to me positively selfish to
claim the sole authorship of said map.
As to Chalkley Gillingham being cited before
the church / have nothing TO say. / simply
gave the story rs told me by his son. From
the fact that never held the rank Of Corpo-
raj. and, as said in a former ication,
never having seen Cedar Grove could not
have made such report. and Kearny could
not have told the Quaker Scout any such thing
rs he claims.
As one of onr old Headquarters scouts Gilt
- II II tne Nharn &c,
in your statements" There were just three
men by the name of knight in the First New
Jersey Brigade. One in the Sd n. j. was in
1851 a Lieutenant, and a good officer in
Co. c, I'd n. j., was q Corporal and good fell
low too; and one Sergeant of Co. II, also OF
the I'd and don't wish to try and screen any
of my shortcomings behind the Corporal's
shoulders; my own are broad enough. / was
the man at Kearny's Headquarters, and was
3oth or 31st of December, 1862, and from that
time until tho close of the war served rs
civilian employe of the Government.
have been asked a good many times if I
knew the Quaker Scout, and what kind of a
man he was. ! have always said I should
hardly call him a scout,-more of a guide, and
that but few times during the war,-but that
never saw him anywhere except in Aiexan-
dria, Va; that he was not with Army Head
quarters, either under Hooker, Meade, or
Grant.
When he sailed into me in the shape lie did
Dec 81, 1891, / must confess to having been
astonished-coud not understand the animus,
but think see now, as he thinks l was trying
to steal his laureIs / disclaim any such in
tention, and will now close by saying all this
cannot be very interesting to your readers, and,
quoting from the Quaker Scout: am just
what am; nothing more, nothing leSs."-J.
KNIGHT, Washington, ID. G.