1          Bucks County Intelligencer  An officer of the 104th Regiment  June 24, 1862  Page 2  Col. 1          1

 

—An officer of the 104th Regiment, who visited

Doylestown last week, represented that the chagrin and

indignation among the officers and men of Casey’s Divi-

sion, when the newspapers reached camp containing Gen.

McClellan’s dispatch to the War Department, imputing

to them bad conduct in the battle of Fair Oaks—were

most intense.  It was truly distressing to witness the out-

bursts of mortification, disappointment and anger which

arose from some of the regiments which had suffered so

severely in the battle, and which had lost so many men

in resisting the advance of an overwhelming foe.  They

were willing to encounter any danger that seemed neces-

sary, in defence of the Union, and murmured not at the

hardships of camp life.  But to be posted at home as

having “unaccountably and discreditably” broken and

fled in the face of the enemy, after having done their ut-

most, as they believed, to check his advance, was more

than they could bear.  Strong,-brave men, in sheer mor-

tification and despair, sat down and wept over the false

position in which they had been placed by McClellan. 

They all declared that he had done them great injustice.