The National tribune., 1906-03-29

1t being impossible TO properly sup
ply his men at that point, Col. Garfield
withdrew his command to PaintVille,
where he remained until March 16,
when. having learned that battalion
OF Virginia troops had advanced
through Pound Gap and established
Winter quarters near Pikeville, Gar
field advanced with parts of the 10th
and 42d Ohio, 22d Ky. and McLaugh-
Inns Cavalry, carrying their rations on
mules. The difficulties of their march
were increased by a heavy snow storm.
The enemy made some resistance. in
which one man was killed and several
wounded. and they then broke in flight
They We're pursued for six miles toward
Abingdon, and their quarters, consist
ing of so log huts and two large build
ingS, were destroyed, together with
half a dozen army wagons. In March
Col. Garfield was ordered to unite with
Gen. Buell., and moved his command to
Louisville.
Gen. Don Carlos Buell..
There had entered upon the affairs
of Kentucky a man who was to direct
them with potent hand for the next
year. There had been three Depart
ment Commanders exercising authority
over Kentucky. Gen. Mcclellan had done
nothing except make the treaty with
Gen. Buckner. which he afterWard re-
pudiated. Gen. Anderson had also don"
nothing except to take some measures
for the defense of Louisville against
EUckners invasion. Gen. Sherman's
failure to accomplish any results and
his fragrant vagarieS of speech and
manner had made the iOng-suffering
Lincoln and Secretary Cameron hope
less of his accomplishing anything.
Then they looked about them CAREFUL
ly for an able, prudent, conservative
hi, <zT
the chaos in the State and do something
TO meet the just expectations of the
Union people of Kentucky as well as
those of the North.
Don Carlos Buell. was one of the
highly-accomplished coterie of younger
officers of which Gen. George Il. Nc
CleIlan was the head. He was a man
who was instinctiyely soldier and
devoted to all the arts and even the
rciinemcnts of his profession. Digni-
fed. Teticent, thoroughly versed in mill
tary literature and official routine. calm
and somewhat repellent in manner, he
CXempiified the finest type of the young
military officer according to some ideals.
He came of Welsh ancestry and fam
lily which had been prominent in the
wars of the Revolution and with the
Indians. His grandfathers were pio-
neerS of Ohio; one of them built the
first brick house erected in Cincinnati
and the General was born near Mariet-
ta, O., March 20, 1913, and was conse-
broke out. He was appointed to West
Point, and graduated from the Military
Academy 32d in the class OF lS41,
which had many distinguished MEM
bers, with Jealous Il. Tower, at the
head and Gems. Horatio c. Wright, a.
W. Whipple, T. j. Rodman. A. +. Howe,
Nathaniel Lyon, J. Il. Plummer, ]. NJ.
Brannan, Schuyler Hamilton, James
Totteu. John +. Reynolds, Alfred Sully
/. b. Richardson and w. r. II. Brooks
of the Union army, and Gems. Samuel
| Jones, S. s. Anderson, II. s. Garnet
L. b. Garnett John M. Jones and A.
| RufOrd, of the Confederate army. were
members. His class standing was 50
ordinary that he went into the infantry
and served until the Mexican War on
| frontier duty against the Indians. In
Mexico he seems to have been more
tEan ordinarily distinguished, for he
gained three brevets, which seem to
have been better bestowed than was
| the custom with Mexican War brevets
He applied himself assiduousy to his
pf ofession, thought of nothing else and
| in 1913 gained a transfer to the Adju-
| t9nt-General's Office, where he was on
| duty in the troublous days preceding
| the war. and was sent on confidential
| errands to Maj. Anderson at Fort Sum-
| ter. He had become a Major. He had
! therefore, commended himself to the
| inner circle of the War Department
which was then under the control OF
AdJt-Gen. Cooper. Quartermaster-Ge
eral Joseph Z. Johnston. Chief-of-S -Stafi
| Robert l.. Lee, and others, who were
soon to leave Washington for high COM
mands in the Confederate army. From
this it must be inferred that Buell. was
| in complete accord with their political
views at the time. Like them, he sided
with his State when the break oc-
Cured. and so found himself on the
side OF the Union.
| His subsequent career showed thai
| he possessed eminent talents as a SOL
| der, accompanied with grave defects
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