The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-23
REASONS GIVEN
BY PRESIDENT
Why Ohio Regiment of Civil
War Came in for Attention
in Recent Message
MUCH FEELING Is AROUSED
OHIO VETERANS DECLARE THAT
REFERENCES TO THE REGI.
MENT ARE NOT IN ACCORD
WITH OFFICIAL RECORDS.
Publishers Press.l

washington, Dec. 22.-Correspond-
ence regarding the muster out of the
Sixtieth Ohio regiment of infantry,
concerning which Senator Foraker in
a speech in the senate took issue with
President Roosevelt, was given out at
the White House. Reference to the
by the president in his answer to the
senate resolution asking for informa-
ton bearing ON the discharge without
honor of a battalion of the Twenty
fifth regiment of infantry for alleged
participation in the trouble at Browns
Vile, Tex. In his message the presi-
dent, citing presidents for his action,
said: 1.-THE Sixtieth Ohio was sum-
marily discharged, on the ground that
the regiment was disorganized, mu-
tinous and worthless"
The correspondence includes letters
passing between Brigadier General
Daiel Tyler. commanding at Camp
Douglas, Chicago, and officials of the
war department and pension office at
Washington. In a letter to Adjutant
General Thomas at Washington, dated
Chicago, oct. p, 1852. General Tyler
used the words: This regiment (the
Sixtieth Ohio yolunteers) is disorgan-
tied, mutinous and worthless" The
officers, he adds, have not the least
control over the men, the men are
mutinous, and am absolutely without
the power to enforce subordination."
He asked that the question of the dis
charge of the regiment be brought be-
fore the secretary of war. 1T WILL"
General Tyler added, rid the govern |
ment of a worthless regiment" Next |
is a telegram from General Thomas |
directing the muster-out of the regi- |
ment-both officers and men.
A note in the correspondence says |
the organization of Sixtieth regiment |
was completed Feb. 2S, 1862. This is
followed by the recitation of a war de-
partment record dated Oct. 81, 1874, |
signed by Assistant Adjutant General
Thomas M. Vincent, which says:
Making the necessary notation on the
proper rolls 70 show that the Sixtieth
Ohio volunteers Zone year organiza-
tom, captured and paroled at Har-
1
tered out Nov 10. 1862, by an order
telegram Oct. 81. 1862. from this office
by reason of its being disorganized,
mutinous aaa worthless"
The last letter in the correspond
ence is from General Tyler to General
dated Oct. %, 1862, in which
he tells of "a spirit of INSTRUMENTATION,
bordering on mutiny,'' among the men
Of the camp. due to the "insubordina-
ton of the Sixtieth regiment and the
inefIiciency Of the men,
Presidents Statement Refuted.
Columbus, o., Dec. 22.-In reply to
the statement made by President
Roosevelt in his message on the dis
charge of negro soldiers that during
The civil war THE Sixtieth Ohio was
summarily discharged on the ground
hat the regiment was disorganized,
,nutinous and worthless" Adjutant
General Critchfeld of Ohio issued a
in which he says: THE
,nuster-out rolls in the adjutant gen
erals Office, Columbus, copies of
which were furnished by the war de
Yartment, show this regiment to have
peen mustered out and honorably dis
charged Nov. 10. 1862. at Chicago, H.,
ey T. o.. Balm. captain Eleventh Unit
cd States infantry. mastering officer.
This statement is made in justice to
Ihe soldiers who served in this organ
cation with such a creditable record,
nd it is a mystery on what authority
The statement has been made that this
egiment was discharged because it
vas disorganized. mutinous and worth
ess." The adjutant general also says
he war records show that a majority
II the regiment after its discharge,
'e-enlisted fer three years In other
organizations and served CALAMITY I'M
II the close OF the war ,