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&emsp; , Editor of the Louisville Journal:

In your paper of November 3d I see a letter signed by Mr. Leslie Combs, in which the following allusion is made to me: “Our children have fought in every battlefield, and never one fled as Carl Schurz and his gang of freedom-shriekers did at Chancellorsville.” I am not in the habit of replying to calumny and abuse springing from the impure inspirations of party spirit; but General Leslie Combs being a man of note, I deem it proper to avail myself of this opportunity to stop a slander which political enemies seem bent upon sustaining by frequent repetition.

I wish therefore to say, that in asserting that “Carl