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GEN. TAYLoR's DISPATCHES The
Richmond Wing says: We said some
days ago, that a very generally credited
statement that Gen. Taylor's dispatches
are not the productions ofhis own pen, was
wholly unlOunded. We made this dpcla.
ration upon the authority OF a gentleman
who has bad intimate business and personal
relations with Gen. Taylor--who was
with him last summer several months In
camp--and who saw him write aud heard
him afterwards read some Of his letters 10
the Department, 10 one Of which not then
made public, but which is embodied in the
Generals recently published coHespon.
donge with the War Department. our in.
iomant specially referred in our converse.
ton on the subject.


But We have now before rs corobora.
tive testimony that Gen Taylor can write
as well as fight. liisa "Letlerfrom CAP
tam Zaehey Taylor, commanding loH
Harrison, Indiana territory, to Gcn. llam
sons" written on the 10Th Of September,
1912, giving and account, in the same
concise, lucid and modest style by which
his more recent dispatches are character.
lied, Of the successful defence oflhat hastily
constructed Fort, against the attack Of an
immense body Of Indians, led by their cclr.
braled Prophet, who for seven hours kept
up the fghli for which brilliant achieve.
menl, President Madison, in November
following conferred upon lin the brcvet
rank Of Major His Adwlant General Maj.
Bliss, to whom has been ascribed by many
the credit Of chronicIing the exploits ol the
commanding General. was then scarcely
Out Of his nurses arms.


We have deemed il our duty 10 disabuse
the public mind, so far as it may be in our
powerso 10 do, ofan impression so injurious
to the reputation Of Gen. Taylor, and which
we know 10 be honestly entertained by not
a few who are not at all disposed 10 do
him any injustice.