Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-06-16
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Seeing the Elephamu.O


ASoLDiER TIRED OF WAR.--The Boston Cou-
rier says the letters from the volunteer regi-
inents in Mexico show that the men have all
ready seen enough Of the war and the country,
and DESTROYS TO return home. A letter from a
member of company B Massachusetts regi-
ment) to relative in this city, dated at Matamo-
roe, May 4th, says:
II am heartily sick of the life of soldier
Our situation here in garrison is much better
than 1t would be if We were on the march, but
still do not at all relish 1t. My visions of
glory, and honor, &C.. have all disappeared, and
in place of them see nothing but the stern re-
slities. of salt pork and hard biscuit, hunger,
thirst, fatigue. and the diseases incident to men
from the Northern States living in a tropical
climate. have much to say respecting the
treatment we have received. When once free
from my present situation will let you know
how we have been deceived. / never thought
that, in assuming the garment of soldier,
should be Obliged TO forget that was born with
the feelings of a man Such is the case.
wish this cursed war would end, that and ev-
cry one here could 60 to our homes.'
A volunteer, who has returned from the Mex
lean war, says: 81 have seen the elephant,
trunk, tusks, and all, and am more than salts
fed. went out Polk soldier and return
Taylor Wing. "-Baltimore Patriot.
A correspondent of the New Orleans Delta,
writing from Saltillo,under date April 90 makes
the following incidental allusion to the Virgin
ia volunteers. He is mistaken about their all
being at Camargo: part is at that place, and
part at Monterey, and perhaps portion at Chi
ma:
"The roads are safe below Monterey. Gen.
Urea has left in some disgust. Trains 60 up
and down with escorts of from sixty to seventy.
The Virginia regiment is at Camargo: they
have, by all accounts, more clothing than any
other regiment in these parts. Their coats are
euriosities; buttons, to the number of seventy,
give to the soldiers a sort of comic appearance,
it looks as if the old chain armor was revived
again. They are a clever set of fellows, though
somewhat discontinued, as all soldiers are at
first. Marching with bIistered feet and heavy
knapsacks, eating what one can get with fin
gers, carrying ones clothes to the washwoman's
and washing them himself, and all thar, will
soon become natural and easy. All, "the ele-
phant' has a great many more spectators than
a1m:rers.r-Richmond Republican.
THE HEROES OF MoNTEREY.-Just one year
ago there marched through our street as noble
and splendid body of men as ever went forth
10 battle. They were about nine hundred strong.
The men were in the vigor of youthful man.
hood, and as in perfect order and with military
precision they paraded through our city, the
admiration Of our people broke forth in loud ap-
plause ofthe gallant array. This was the first
Tennessee regiment, under the heroic veteran
Col. Campbell. They left our city fresh from
their own happy homes in the mountains and
by the river-sides in healthfu Tennessee, full of
hope, ambition, and patriotism; they departed
in cheerful spirits and with impatient ardor for
the scene of war.
On Friday last the whole Of this gallant reg
iment, whose history we have thus briefly
rkctched, arrived in our city. 1t numbers just
three hundred and fifty, about erc-third the
force with which it left. And this loss it has
sustained in a twelve months campaign. 1t
has averaged loss Of fifty men mon.h.-.N.
o. Pic.