The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1864., [Electronic resource]

Lying and stealing.

When it is borne in mind that not a general of the United States service, with the exception of Buell and McClellan, has done anything but steal and lie since the war commenced, we are lost in amazement at the dismissal of Hammond. Is it only in the Medical Department of the United States service that officers are denied the universal privilege of lying and stealing! From Butler, at Big Bethel, to Hancock, at Reams's station, the Yankee commanders and Yankee newspapers have never told a solitary truth; and as to stealing, the whole war has no other object and no other character. The very officers who tried Hammond had, in all probability, their carpet-bags stuffed with silver spoons stolen from Confederate dwellings, and, possibly, rings upon their fingers wrenched from the hands of Confederate ladies. Unfortunate Hammond! --Doubtless he thought he was in a fair way to become a major-general.