The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-01
ABOUT GENERAL HARRINGTON.
Interesting Sketch of Former walling-
 ford Resident

Interesting Sketch of Former Walling-
 ford Resident
 In Pearson's s Magazine for March an article appears by Cyrus Townsend Kearney that has decided local in- terest, concerning as it does General Henry B. Darlington
 General Darlington was a graduate of Yale university, Mir. Brady writes. He had been a teacher, an engineer and scientist, a lawyer and a. man of af- fairs, a student of military matters for several years prior to the outbreak of the civil war. Without his solici- tation, on May II, 1861, he had been ap- pointed colonel of the 18th United States infantry, promoted brigadier general, November 29, 1862, and had rendered valuable and important ser vice during the war. He was a soldier of large experience and proven cour- age, an administrator of vigor and capacity, and, as his subsequent career has shown, a man of fine literary talent.
 It cannot be denied that much dis satisfaction existed among some of the officers at Carrington's policy of pru- dence. They held the popular idea that one white man, especially if he was a soldier, was good for a dozen Indians. Although the mettle of the Sioux nation had not yet been fairly tried by these men, Darlington was wise enough to perceive that such fol- ly meant inevitable destruction, and his consent was sternly refused. Darlington had done nothing to pro- yoke war; he had simply carried out General Shermans s written instructions sent him as late as August, to avoid a general war, until the army could be reorganized and increased,'' while he defended himself and his command stoutly when attacked. But some of his officers, ,covertly sneering at the eau ton of the commander, were burning for an opportunity to distinguish them selves, and had practically determined to make or take one at the first chance Although Darlington had conducted l himself in every way as a brave, pru- dent, skillful, capable soldier, although ] his services naerited reward, not cen 1 sure, and demanded praise not blame
 the people and the authorities required
 a scapegoat. He was instantly reliev- ed from command by General Cooke
 upon a private telegram from Lara
 mic, never published, before the re- eeipt of his own official report, an6 was ordered to change his regimenta
 headquarters to the little frontier post
 of Fort Cooper, where two companies of his first battalion, just become the new eighteenth, were stationed, while four companies of the same battalion
 under his lieutenant colonel were or. l dered to the relief of Fort Phil Rear ney.
 l Tt was not until. some time after that a mixed commission of soldiers l and civilians which thoroughly inves 1 tigated his conduct-having before 1 them all his books and records iron the inception of the expedition unti l it's tragic close-acquitted him of al blame of any sort and awarded him du, praise for his successful conduct of tn, entire campaign. His course was als, the subject of inquiry before a purel, ! military court, all of them his junior. in rank, which also reported favorably lGeneral Sherman expressly stated tha | Colonel Carrington's report, to hi personal knowledge, was fully sustain ed But by some unaccountabl
 oversight, or intent, the report wa suppressed and never published, there by doing lasting injustice to a brav and faithful soldier"