HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
MURFREESBUROUGH, May 26, 1863.
Tell all those
copperhead students for me that, were I there in charge of the school, I would
not only dishonorably dismiss them from the school, but, if they remained in
the place and persisted in their cowardly treason, I would apply to Gen. Burnside
to enforce General Order No. 38 in their cases. . . .
If these young
traitors are in earnest they should go to the Southern Confederacy, where they
can receive full sympathy. Tell them all that I will furnish them passes
through our lines, where they can join Vallandigham and their other friends
till such time as they can destroy us and come back home as conquerors of their
own people, or can learn wisdom and obedience.
I know this
apparently is a small matter, but it is only apparently small. We do not know
what the developments of a month may bring forth, and, if such things be
permitted at Hiram, they may anywhere. The Rebels catch up all such facts as
sweet morsels of comfort, and every such influence lengthens the war and adds
to the bloodshed.
SOURCE: Jonas Mills Bundy, The Life of Gen. James A. Garfield, p. 64
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