The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The Federal Colonel Tyler.

There is a Colonel Tyler in the Federal army, who beings to Cox's division, and whose regiment was marched into Nicholas county, to Summerville, with the view of getting behind Wise. This Colonel is well known in Western Virginia as a pedlar in furs, or rather a dealer in furs. His business was to buy skins from the hunters in that part of the State. He is a Yankee by birth and character. Those who know him well speak of him as a great rascal, and we have no doubt that he is, His general reputation among Western Virginians is that of a sharper and cheat. He acquired very considerable knowledge of the country, and learned all the high-ways and by-ways of the mountains. It was possibly this knowledge, more than any real merit, that placed so unmeritorious a man in a position of command. It was, no doubt, thought that a man so well posted on the topography of the country could easily find his way to its heart, and desolate the hearth-stones of those kind and hospitable people who had shared so often their fare with him, and whom he had so often cheated of their property. Such a man for such a purpose was a marvellous proper one for Lincoln, and, of course, was promoted from, his occupation to go a coloneling among the people he had so often defrauded. It is to be hoped the Colonel will fall into the hands of some who remember him for past offences. If he does, he may thank his stars if he saves his own skin.