January 4, 1865.
MR. EDITOR.--I hear by some letters written to some of the soldiers in this Regiment, that Capt. Chas. C. Siver, of Company H, 114th Regt., N. Y. S. V. has been under an arrest, for meddling with Soldiers' Votes in this Regiment; to that I must say it is a base lie, got up by some one who wishes to harm the Captain, it is without the least foundation, and the person who made such an assertion, has made it without the least foundation for making any such assertion whatever, for in the first place, Captain Siver has never been under an arrest of any kind; and as to his medling with the soldiers votes in any way, it also false. He, it is true, had to make out their papers, and sign his name as Captain commanding such company, in such Regiment.
I have seen him when in making out their papers, for such as wished him to do so, hand them votes for both Candidates, and tell them to take such votes as they chose; when said vote was put in the envelope and sealed in their presence and handed to them, to do with them as they chose; and had the Captain been under an arrest of any kind, either fir forging Soldiers' votes or any other misdemeanor, his sword would have been taken from him and he discharged from the ranks, and that has certainly not been the case, for in the four days fight our troops have had in the Department of the South, he has been in the ranks at the head of his company, cheering his men on and leading them up to the foe, never flinching from the enemy, but giving his men courage by an example of his own.
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