The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-20
STUART'S MEN WERE WEARY
WHEN THEY REACHED LEE
Arduous Campaign in Pennsylvania Exhausted
Energies Of Splendid Cavalry
BY COL. C. N. SAUSSY.
Command.

Failure III battles must needs have
some yicurious victim or sufferer.
Con. Mcclellan censured hts govern
mcnt for his defeat in the Seven Days
battles. claiming IL the government
had appreciated his appeals for prop
CIR support, instead OF covering under
Galnsboro's guns on the bnnl1s Of the
James, he would have been In pos
session OF RICHMOND.
For failure to demolish the de-
pleted Army o: Northern Virginia at
ShalpsburS. he again relieves him
self. and places tho blame on Burn
side.
strangely. tho officer charged as
culpable, and for whose faults Sharps-
burg WAS snndo O drawn battle. Mr..
Lincoln names to replace Mcclellan,
aai Burus.dn becomes commander OF
the Potomac army. ue realized to
whom much Is given much Is expect
ed. SO he moved rapidly to seize Fred
ericksburg as the base for this third
or fourth ION to Richmond" But the
great Virginian, looking at him calm
" from the neither bank OF the Rap
pahannock, placed his military finger
upon the bloody chessboard and called
f"Check!"
Regarding the insane demands OF
that hydra-headed monster. Public
Clamor. Burnside pitched losing bat-
tie. Because the Potomac army could
not accomplish the Impossible. he
prepared sweeping order d1smissing
Brooks, Cochrane and Newton, and re-
lieving from their commands Gem
erals Franklin. Smith, Sturgis and
Ferrero, and arrogantly notified his
government 1t must approve his order
or accept his resignation.
Hero again Mr. Lincoln assumes the
remarkable role Of removing Burn
side and placing "Fi lighting Joe.'' whom
Burnside had namod as chief co nspira-
tor, In command Of the Army Of the
Potomac.
Next in the list OF exhibits, this
Same "Fi Citing Joe" Hooker planned
a 'splendid campaign to crush Lee and
his army and thus end the war. He
issued his proclamation. THE rebel
army Is now the legitimate property
OF the Army Of tho Potomac IIe
crossed the Rappahannock with 1885,
s70S deputies to enforce his levy. Gem
eral Lee conscientiously believed his
title defeotive, and resisted tho levy
with 5S,303 gaunt but veteran follow
SChancellorsvillo there was a flaw in
his titles and sent him beyond the
Rappahannook to perfect his process.
l#s Then Fl ghting Joe" began an sin-
vostigatton and became satisfied one
George G. Mead Q was most responsible
| for tho mistake and requested the
I$government to remove him. and ap-
prove his actlon Then followed come
stirring Incidents In this country's.
history. eliminating In the canton OF
J this article.
Mr.. lincoln could not see tho case
4 in the same light as ghting joe;
ana some other friction between the
II Potomac arIny'a commander and the
War D epartm ant cul1ainated In his res
.noyal and strangely agaip~ht stary re-
] peated itsolf and the culpable Q 1cer,
4 Cen, q. e. Meade, Is assigned to- the
4 command Of the Potomac army.
n These Incidents ARD mentioned to
show IN great crises. where failure
ha / resulted. some ono must become
4 the chief sufferer,
Lee Assumed blame.
Now we come to Gettysburg. Warm
ana heated contentious have from time
/ to time, for more than four ana a half
t decades, been argued as to who must
I bear tina blame for the failure Of Leo
Ito carry Cemetery Hill, The great
4 vlcarioNs sufferer, self-assurned, Is
Gen. Robert n. Lee. Ne.
When Plolsett's shattered a division
3its relnnant-got back to Seminary
/ HEIGHTS. the sloyiouH YIykinlan said,