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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia — a proclamation. (search)
allenged investigation. For these malignant slanders, he branded their authors as cowardly and contemptible liars and scoundrels. [Cheers] He had not even obeyed fully the orders he received. Had he done so, Pleasant Hill, Independence, Kansas City, and Westport, would have been in ashes. If these acts were criminal, then his superior officers were to be charged, not himself. We were fighting not an organized force, but a sneaking crowd of murderers, who did not dare to meet them in thWestport, would have been in ashes. If these acts were criminal, then his superior officers were to be charged, not himself. We were fighting not an organized force, but a sneaking crowd of murderers, who did not dare to meet them in the open field. He offered to fight Up. Hays, with equal numbers, at any time, but he refused. What was left? Why, we burnt them out. Was it not right? The Colonel then gave a rapid sketch of his campaign in Western Missouri, which justified his course, and demanding an investigation and justice at the hands of his defamers, he then alluded to the instigators of his arrest, stating that he had just received letters from them, in which they backed down, and declared that Gen. Sturgis would