The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-13
General Schofield.
Editor of III:

EDITOR OF The lIlfncS-liSpatcl:
sir,-In a recent issue. under the cap
ton, Grand Old Man" II is stated that
General schoiield. at his own request.
with his Twenty-third Army Corps, was
transferred to the coast of North Caro-
lima where he captured Wilmington, Kin
ston and Goldsboro." We heard nothing
of burned cities and a smoking belt of
country marked by bare chimneys In the
line of route Of Schoficld's army. This
absence OF destroyed homes is highly
oreditablc to General Schoncld, when We
contrast these conditions with those left
by Sheridan in the Valley of Virginia and
BY General Sherman In his .'march
through Georgia. 1t would be historic
cally instructive and interesting did we
certainly know why General Schofied
asked to be detached with his corps to
another field of action and did not carry
WITH him peremptory orders to burn and
p,ilagc indiscrlmnately as he advanced
Was not his general conduct during and
moral instincts and nicer home training
both forbade General schoheld partici-
pating In or giving countenance by his
presence to the needless cruelty and
sherman and those in authority over
him and making possible the dcGlemcnt
Of the State Of Georgia? These damnlng
plots on american history fortunately
under the glare of burning llones some
noble characters. less fortunate thnn
General Schofeld. in his ability to escape
vortex OF wanton destruction for the
tary discipline. were subjected to witness
cruelties. permitted and practiccd nv
their atrocious commanders. Can we
doubt that General schofela discussed
civilized warfare and 'thc conduct Of tho
war when asking to be transferred 10
another field. May 1t not have happened
1nat }, ut this suggested Interview General
schoheld called General sherman's at
1ent'on to the general orders of Gen. r. =.
Lee. when. IN June. 1863 near Chambers
burg, Pa. the Army of Northern Vir-
gllia; led by Lee. was warned not TO
revenge on their enemies. then devnstat-
ing Southern hones. Lees orders to his
army was a challenge to the North and
to 9, all the civilized world that an honor
he war G9ud not be made
tysburE address is read in public d
sense of honor should demand that Lees
orders above mentioned should be read
e fIstory, page upon pt mage Is chapter OF
lousy avoided by Northern speakers, who
give to their audience the play OF Ham
let, without tho language OF tho chief
actor, Lee. -
Allow mo-. through your columns. to
place n chaplet from memory on the brow
OF an iliterate little Irish-Americann
ltt l he may have been, horn on the
the grand march," Dennis could neither
read nor write; he was farm boy in
Ohio and volunteered In one of tho Buck-
eye neutrality-suspicious. the One Hundred
and First or One Hundred and Fifth. as
!! recall. He was, when I know him, n
brakeman and orc shovellcr at mines in
the far West Drifting without n home.
and yet he had never unsheltered n, wo-
man. md her children In Georgia. It was
touching to SEQ the change to sraveness
in this brave little fellows eyes and face
rs he confessed to the wrongdolngs of
Sherman and his troops that provoked
o'Brien's feelings of pity for tho women