Show GENERAL after twenty years of dismissal and disgrace general john porter has been re instated in the united states army with the rank of colonel and pay the same as that winch he drew as a general from the general features of the case general porter is a demo ceat a sad misfortune indeed when such men as general logan are in the united states senate his crime wis the of ciders alleged to bo so at least and hii disobedience of the said orders was with a view of having general pope defeated and general mcclellan ie instated who had jual been removed bortei it seems was a great friend of maclellan and for this friendship ho was charged with the pretense of disobeying orders A cettei from general longstreet who wag en paged in the same battle says that if the order was given to A 01 OI ter to move on the evening at 4 50 it was simply impossible foi him to do so without great loss and the probable annihilation of his whole command and yet general logan has the impudence to say that to restore means to re a criminal criminal in what way was it a crime for porter to keep hib men out of the jaws of death says that if he would have failed on abo of august in the second battle of manasses junction the charges would have been greater against him than those against porter the idebel forces having the advantage of the federals enabled them to defeat the hattei for which Longstree fc was promoted and general porter dismissed aiom the for disobeying an order that an antagonist was impossible for him to obey at that time but in spite of logans bitterness and hia ceaseless efforts to defeat the bill general porter is re instated in the army and the banate to give him his baal pa from the time be was forced to out of service until he was ie instated general logana record is not any too bright and he strikes himself i blow than bo does lorlei when ho galls the latter a criminal f A 1 |