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Perkins, of officers in the regiment in which Cameron served untill te wae Mamiveed from the servicer, can at auy tle attest to one person who will take the pains to.ee to them. foCuntoven, P.M JUDAS PERKINS RELY. To the Editor of the Bulletins My attention has been called to a letter written by Wm. McCullough, to the editor of the Batesville Republican, sand copied into your paper of the 22d mat., with editorial comments, fy which letter my name (among others) is re ferred to to establish the truth of the statements therein contained. The omit my duty to submit the ree ply to that communication. Tats Mr. McCullough ie mistaken nx to the rank Mr. Cameron held in the army. He, (Cameron,) was comm oned captain, of “company K, Suth Tli nois cavalry,” long before the regiment jonglaks, Chicago, Tlinois, 2d. it true that Capt. Cameron, (with several other officers of the car~ airy division, was ordered before a military commission. Mr. McCutough refern with positiveness to and purporting to be issued from the war department, being “special order No. , dated Dec 1868, dieminsing him, (Cameron,) in the service.” No such order, as Sam informed, was received at the regimental headquar ters; on the contrary, I am reliably in formed, and believe the fact to be, that before the finding of the commission was received at Washington, Cameron's resignation, which long before the con vening of the commission had been for warded to the war department, had been accepted, and he was honorably dinects the service, and that Came ron has the evidence of this fact in his possession. 34. The skirmish at Waddle farm, Arkansas, has almost passed from my memory; my best recollection in, that Captain Cameron's company was am bushed, or in the army parlance of that day, “bushwhacked.” That Cameron was unhorsed, and his company fell back in considerable confusion, about half a mile, when he succeeded in rul ing his command, and as 1 was injur ed by his men, behaved himself a great gallant certaint la, that he was afterwards complimented in a general order by hie regimental com mander, for hie condut in thie afair. 4th. It was not true that Mr. Came ron “was known about the streets of Chicago, and to the police of the city nn a dissipated and abandoned char acter, and an inmate of, and a pimp for one of the lowest houses of prostitu tion in the city.”) Mr. Cameron, was always respected in Chicago for his ability in his profission, and his suc cess in ite practice. At times his habits were unfortunate; but In that, he was not mn exception by any means to great many eminent members of the Chicago bar. Mr. McCullough is also mistaken in his assertion that he (Came ron) brought with him to Helena a female who had been an inmate of a house of prostitution. ‘The lady refers red to, wie wud is, Captain Cameron's lawfully wedded wife, and among the officers who had the pleasure of her acquaintance, she was always spoken of with reep and kindness. Sth. Me. McCullough says, Hint “1 (abr. McCulough) have known hin, in sight of the whole town of Helena, to lay smealer, apparently insessible,” etc. Lean simply say as to this, that I never did sell his in audio condition, and that I never heard of it before. So far as my observation went, Cap tain Cameron's habits would compare favorably with a large proportion of the visicera In the command at Selena. There were many very demoratic influences surrounding the at Helena, well understood by adding whose misfortune it was to be stationed there. And it is not sun 2 that many high in rank should have euccumbed to them. And, indeed, I may add that some of those Influences, especially the ardent spirits, reached to the au LQ une her he department on thie side of the river. Wider the ver fag of the commanding general. Any one at all conversant with the fete must “Grant” thie to be true. It will be seen by what FE have here written that I have confined myself to each subjecte only thal was walled upon by the Loder of McCullough to reply to, or not doing, as, seem to join with him in hhe accusation of Mr. Cameron, Ae to all other matters alluded to, I shall leave them to Mr. Cameron to disawer—not doubting that he is fully able anh willing to vindicate his honor and standing in the proper way and at the proper tine. Very respecting Youur obedient servant, Maktany Pears. —++= — From the Louinville Journ Gen. Then. ¢. Mindman. A brief dispatch which appears in our talegrense columns this rorniiy announces He death of this distinguish= ed Confederate General, by assassina tion, at his home in Helena, Arkansan, on the night of the 27th instant. The supposed assassin, A man named Rob bins, from Springfield, Mo. said to erred under General Hindman during the late war, was arrested at Memphis yesterday,and though stron ly protesting his innocence, was wal back to Helena. General Hindman was a native of Tennessee, and in the fiftieth year of his age. He began his military career, which from time to time was marked with no little brilliancy, in the Mexi can War, serving in an second Lieu tenant of Mississippi volunteers. Af ter the close of that war, General Mind man settled in Arkansas, where he subs equently gained prominent position among the leading public men of that State. He was a Representative from Arkisuany in the Thirty-Sixth Congress, and was reelected to the Thirty-avvontt. At the breaking out of the late war, he was among the first to buckle on his armor on the service of his adoped State, his military prestige and his position procuring for him at once the commission of a Brigadier-General. Subsequently he was commissioned an d Major-General, which mank he held at the cassation of hostilities. General Mindman was a dashing, fearless soldier, and, though fretting at times towards the close of the war at the control of those of his superior, whom he suspected of lack of military skill, was never found wanting when called upon to perform his part in the unequal struggle in which the army of Tennessee was so long engaged. [Iis impossible at the late hour at which we write to give anything more than this brief recnune of the life and public ser vices of General Hindman, Nor have we the heart, were the data all at hand, to write more, so wlocked are we now at the cruel telegram which Hes betere na, telling of the death, by the hand of a cowarifly assassin, of thie brave sol dier, sitting quietly in his home with his wife nese his side and his children all About his. Tt fe hard to think the t iwian that how borne the brant of a hus ved battles should be shot down when [not dreaming of dane peace which is vouchsafed to us! a Bart in understood that [instanant ]General Sherman has determined 0 sane arms and ammeanition to vitinous alum the Indian frontier for protertion against Further deprodarinns by the puerpes ’
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