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lucks *i»1 huts, astd Captain John li. I uker '» son, clet tiled by the Secret iry of War, from ht ;e the regular United Stales annv as Quarter- It*master, superintended and paid Ur the Work, yj , as advertisements Ircquentiv published in your ^ v columns ahimdmilv testily'. Capt \V. W.*s Burn*., ol the United States regular army, is f; and has been from the first day soldiers were t ordered to Tamp Dennison, Commissary fur nj r it, by order of the Secretary of War.All that the Executive of Ohio had or could r* properly have had to do with Camp Dennison li- may bo stated in four paragraphs. ii*e i 1st A United Slates camp being necessary a_ in Southern Ohio, Governor Dennison an j thorized General McClellan to seicct a loca ; tion. :21. lie appointed, for the United States ser- t it. vice, under authority l»v the call of the Presi-|t dent, the Brigadiers General of the troops |, quartered there' u31 W hen it was determined to reorganize ar the three months' volunteers into three years’ ^ ne volunteers, in consultation with General Me-,1. Clelian, Brigadiers Bates, Cox, and Sehleich, ^ ,if with nis own stall*. Governor Dennison deci- ;delt;l upon an order delining the mode by which r * x reorganization might be effected.Co 4ib. When Capt. Dickerson declared him he self unable to get money from the Generali / 1 . i • I /* . • L . .1 _ f *Vij Governm *nt to provide for the purchase uniforms for the troops in Camp Dennison,of theGovernor of Ohio promptly authorize4) him to )e•eTt* make the necessary purchases, assuring him •• i the State would advance to the General Gov-einnient the tuoney required foi that purpose, u which advance the State in due time made, as j authorized under the appropriation of $500, a U00. in aid of the Federal aulhoriiies for pros- c' iel . edition ot the war.oon I These propositions explicitly express all Ithrt-authority, responsibility «»r accountability I*clt;nnniiexercised in, by, lor or alout Camp Dennison by the Executive of Ohio, and his military i Sialf. Governor Dennison has not, nor never ve had authority even to issue a pa*s to any per ief son wishing to visit that camp, c« nseqnently we wh* n, according to*'M. id.” the general Gnv-ke ernmect undertakes to sever Governor Den- ^ nison’s connection therewith, and give Gener w al McClellan the resjKinsibility — the Govern- I* ae ! ment will undertake to sever what never ex- . s! *. ! isted, ant) what will give Gen McClellan; wfi what, from the hour that Camp Dennison,even P tur in name, existed h- has always had—firsi ; h p. ; through Brigadier General J. 1. Cox. and af se ter the breaking up of 1 ainp Harrison through U Id Brigadier General J. H. Bates. j CJ|i. It is as unjust to hold Governor Dennison )’ [id ; responsible lor the cart, tnanagefih nt or eon- j 1 er trol of Camp Dennison, or lor the payment of ; e ug troops there, or at Washington, as it would H er I be to h Id him responsible for the tnilitan b tie drill and good behavior of the troops under Ji v.» General Lyon, in Missouri, or under General 11 ch 1 Butler, in Virginia. ! 0I testify about that which I do know, when I b a | I declareth.it Governor Dennison has mani ud tested earnest zeal, foresight and pdnstaking elt; en I energy on behalf of the soldiers of Ohio, -and b in | that he has done everything any man in his s' he | place could have done for the volunteers at j P it Camp Dennison. He has been wantonly ! e abused for what newspaper Editors are pleas- r elt;l to call “circumlocution” at Washington,!11 and for mistakes arising out of inexperience of 1 officers and inexperience of men, as well as for 0 mistakes arising out of what was not inexpe-! u rience of those whom soldiers have chosen as; v their leaders. Respect fully.WM. T. COGGESUALL. I 8resof
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Wilmington Clinton Republican
Wilmington, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 28, 1861
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