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1t at our special request, for we were anxious ,o shield the volunteers frow all obloquy in connection with the subject:

 s'Some letter writers nave certainly given most uncharitable accounts oi some of the volunteers from the 2d Regiment of Indiana and the Arkansas Cavalry. No one pretends to deny but that some of many of the com mands did not fully sustain their American character and fled, and that others, though subsequently behaving with marked bravery, wayered at the first shock of battle but to attach disgrace to the phole of the 2d lndi- ana Regiment, or Arkansas Regiment, or Illinois or Kentucky, or any other com mands, IS positively disgraceful to the author, as fair chronicler of events, or even as man of truth.

 ''Gen. Taylor, whose sense of justice and bravery has never been questioned, puts down the number who ingloriously fled al 200 Among this number, sierm justice will say, were some fer of more than one, ot two, or three commands. One moments re- flection will satisfy the minds of sensible men, that wholesale censure can not apply. Supposing two regiments had fled the field, how many men, pray, would there have been left to fight. One letter-writer has if that the Indiana and Arkansas men fedi This unjust and fotd slandcr includes the Sd Regi- men, and Rifle Battalion of Indiana, when it is known by all that they fought most desperately, and that the Sd never yielded an inch at any iime.' highly distinguished officer was heard to say-and most truly that there was glory enough for all that par ticlpated in this fight, without stopping to notice the few unfortunate souls, who arc more to be pitied than abused"

 Let us hear no more about the cowardice of the volunteers, nor the Delta making nor sustaining the charge.