The National tribune., 1897-02-25

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not to overlook this breach OF discipline
and propriety. The rebel army was only
composed Of three corps; / had that
very day ridden six miles of their lines
found them everywhere strongly occur
pied, and therefore Hooker could moi
have encountered "three entire corps. y
Both Mcpherson and Schofield had also
complained to me of this same ten
dency of Hooker to widen the gap
between his own corps and his proper
army (Thomas's), so as to come into
closer contact with one Or the other OF
the wings, asserting that he was the
senior by commission to both McPher-
son and Schofeld, and that in the event
of battle he should assume command
over them, by virtue Of his older COM
mission.
THEY APPEALED TO ME- TO PROTECT
THEM.
| had heard during that day some can
nonading and heavy firing down toward
the Kulp House, which was about five
miles southeast of where | was; but this
was nothing unusual, for at the same
moment there was firing along our lines
full 10 miles in extent.
Early the next day (23d) l rode down
to the Kulp House, which was on road
leading from Powder Springs to Mari
eta, about three miles distant from the
latter. On the way l passed through
Gen. Butterfeld's Division of Hooker's
Corps, which / learned had not been
engaged at all in the battle Of the day
before; then I rode along Geary's and
Williams's Divisions, which occupied
the field of battle, and the men were
engaged in burying the dead. | found
Gen. Schofield's Corps on the Powder
Springs road, its head of column
abreast of Hooker's right, therefore
constituting ga strong right flank" and
| met Gems. Schofeld and Hooker to-
geher As rain was falling at the mo-
ment, we passed into little church
standing by the roadside, and [ there
showed Gen. Schofeld Hooker's signal
message of the day before. He was
very angry, and pretty sharp words
passed between them, Schofeld saying
that his head of column (HascalPs Di-
vision) had been at the time of the bat
tie actually in advance of Hooker's
line that the attack, or sally, of the
enemy struck his troops before it did
Hooker's; that Gen. Hooker knew of
it at the time and he offered to go out
and show me that the dead men of
his advance division (HascalFs) were
lying farther out than any Of Hooker's.
Gen. Hooker pretended not to have
known this fact. l then asked him
why he had called on me for help
until he had used all Of his own
troops, asserting that | had just seen
Butterfeld's Division, and had learned
from him that he had not been en-
gagged the day before at all and as
serted that the enemy's sally must have
been made by one corps (Hood's) in
place of three, and that it had fallen
on Geary's and Williams's Divisions,
which had repulsed the attack hand
somely. As we rode away from that
church Gen. Hooker was by my side, and
1 told him that such a thing must not
occur again; in other words, | reproved
him more gently than the occasion de-
manded, and from that time
HE BEGAN TO sULK.
Gen. Hooker had come from the East
with great fame as a Fighter and at
Chattanooga he was glorified by his
"battle above the clouds" which | fear
turned his head. He seemed jealous of
all the army commanders, because in
years, former rank, and experience, he
thought he was our superior.
On the 23d of June | telcgraphed to
Gen. Helleck this summary, which l
cannot again better state:
We continue to press forward on the princ.
| pie of an advance against fortified positions.
| The whole country is one vast fort. and John
ston must have at least so miles of connected
| trenches with abatis and finished batteries.
| We gain ground daily, fighting all the tune.
On the 2lst Gen. Stanley gained position near
| the south end of Kenesaw, from which the
| enemy attempted in vain to drive him and
! the same day Gen. r. J. Woods Division took
| a hill, which the enemy assaulted three times
| at night without success, leaving more than a
| hundred dead on the ground. Yesterday tho
extreme right (Hooker and Schoield) advanced
| on the Powder Springs road to within three
| miles of Marietta. The enemy made strong
effort to drive them away. but failed signaily.
leaving moro than two hundred dead on the