General Hooker, commanding on the Lower Potomac, is not more
addicted to slave-catching than the Gen. McCook at Nashville, referred to by
our own correspondent – himself a Kentuckian.
The following corroborating testimony is by the correspondent of the
Pittsburgh Gazette, writing from Nashville:
The Jackson Mississippian, in recording the feats of Lieut.
Trotter, at Fort Donelson, says that while he was engaged in shooting down five
Federals in a pile, with a single revolver, his servant, a negro boy, ran up to
assist him, “and while fighting manfully by his side, was shot down by the
enemy, when his mater, with one wipe of his bowie-knife, killed the man who
slew his servant.” Terrible monster, and
devoted servant, were they not? Some of
our Generals make it a rule to see that none of the negroes become devoted to
them in the same style. When one comes
into the camp of Gen. McCook – “a big bellied and profane Brigadier” – he takes
particular care to have the man spotted, recorded, guarded, and returned to the
man who first applies for him. Gen.
McCook received a lengthy notice in the secesh papers here for his liberality
in returning the slaves of individuals who have been engaged in the
rebellion. He swears “he’ll have no G-d
d----d Abolitionist in his command.” He
is the individual to whom the correspondent of the New York World lately referred
in a letter from this place. He has long
been a disgrace to the army – is a man without sense, modesty or discretion,
and is entirely out of place as the commanding and superior officer of such a
man as Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau, of Kentucky, whose brigade is in his division,
or Gen. Negley, whose brigade was in
the same deplorable condition.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 2
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