Gen. Floyd and the Wise Legion.
The following card from General John B. Floyd is published by request:
Gentlemen — In the Enquirer of October 1st you have published certain letters, dated in Camp Defiance, purporting, under my command. These persons pretend to narrate my conduct in this campaign, particularly in the late actions on the Gauley and retreat to Meadow Bluff. Their statements are calumniatory falsehoods, having no shadow of truth for their foundation; but their intention, and not less their malignity, is too obvious to permit me to believe that they can be injurious either to my own reputation or that of the army which I then commanded. Even were it otherwise, I should leave the judgment of those affairs to my Government, which, having been exactly informed of their details, has honored their conduct with a cordial approbation, and remit my personal vindication from malicious detraction to history, as also to those among my living countrymen who love justice.--But the duty of a commander compels me to demand of you the names of those individuals who have so far forgotten the honor of gentlemen and the character of officers, as to invent and publish libels on their General and their companions in arms, thus vile in spirit and untruthful in material, that they may be tried by the military tribunals, and punished, if guilty, according to the laws of the army.
I am, sir, your obd't serv't,
John B. Floyd.
John B. Floyd.
