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The Daily Dispatch: April 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], A chaplain dismissed for speaking of Gen. McClellan. (search)
A chaplain dismissed for speaking of Gen. McClellan. --The Falmouth correspondent of the Providence Journal informs the good people of Rhode Island that the Rev. P. H. Burkbards, chaplain to the 1st regiment. United States Surgeons, has been dismissed from the service by the President. The cause of this unceremonious treatment was a speech which the reverend gentleman made to his former congregation, at Schenectady, N. Y., in which he depicted the dangers he had passed, and accidentally alluded to "Gen. McClellan's high military qualities." For this he was summarily furnished. The dismissal from the service of Lieutenant Edgerly, for voting the Democratic ticket, is a worthy counterpart to this manifestation of Presidential displeasure. The New York Zei calls these proceedings "a means of "--Philadelphia Age.