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The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Presidential campaign at the North . (search)
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The Daily Dispatch: September 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fight at Reams's station . (search)
Lying and stealing.
Among the most astounding items of recent intelligence from Yankee land is the statement that "Brigadier-General Hammond, Surgeon-General of the United States, has been dismissed the service for stealing and lying."
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 u