Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-05-23
Head Quarters Of NEcNWIty
Guards.


CoLCMBus, May l4th. lsGl
Call forth your music, collect the multitude
and rent the air with cheers for "little Holiness"
from her fruitful hills and pleasant valcs, her
workshops and her studics-she has sent the only
full company that has been accepted without
man being rejected.
On Saturday afternoon we were medically cx.
amincd at the State House, and we were then
sworn in after which we gave three hearty cheers
for the Constitution, the Union, Holmes county
and the only full company. All honor to Little
Holmes" Our time is three months. Friend,
EsrILL please inform the people that so soon as
we return from tie wars | intend going to the
large cities Of the East to put on foot new pro-
ject. 1t is an immense one, know, but have
got the right men for the right place. Ipropose
to find all lost property. We have the best lot of
finders in our company | ever saw-they have all
found enough to start house keeping. know of
one party Of six who expect to "mess' together,
and they have found seven sets of knives & forks,
four table spoons, three tea spoons, eight plates
four peperboXes, one saltsecr, two candlestcks
and three tin cups; they will tint stovc coffee
pot, and large dining table if they can get coats
large enough to put them under. The rest of the
boys find in proportion; they hope to get chance
to try their hand down South. 1t is singular co.
incidence that, when at the table, the officer gives
the command of"right and left face march;" and
then calls time: "leit left, left" the Dishes knives
forks and things in general echo hjt, I'm, and
when the proprietor enquiries for absent utensils
from the lungs of a sable waiter re -echos the ON
inous words lcf, left.
hear frequent enquiries among the soldier,
about the money that was collected and sent with
them for their benefit They understand that there
are some two or three hundred dollars here in
bank. Some suggest that it should be equally dis.
tributed others that one hundred dollars should
be given te the officers that they nav equip them.
selves ard thus enable them to command the res.
pect due them, and that the balance should be
distributed among the company. ! think the lat
ter proposition would be acceptable to all, as the
uniforming Of the officers would be of great ad.
vantage, not only to themselves but to the com
pany, After this there wou'd be enough left TO
keep the boys in paper, stamps, and perhaps get
each one Il cheap ocloth blanket, which is of he
utmost Importance in wet weather, and the Lord
knows We have had any quantity of that in fact we
have had only two or three dry days "sunwtched''
between since we have been here. The fact is,
EsTILL, the boys are "strapped;" with few ex.
ceptions they have not money enough to get a
shirt washed, but those who have few five cent
pieces lend them with soldiers good will; and as
we are all in ignorance as to when we shall get
any pay if there is any money to be distributed
now is the time to do it,.
| 1t is yet uncertain what the State intends doing
with us. Col Irvine Informed me that he thought
it settled proposition that we will be taken from
our present quarters in course of u few days; and
he thinks we will be quartered ON the State Fair
grounds, (about mile from this place y and there
furnished with tents. We are all anxious for tbo
change, but we cannot depend ON ANYTHING VIC
hear. We are all Know Nuthings; the "power.
that be" don't know anything; nobody knows any.
thing; consequently everything is msmanaged
ana the soldiers are becoming dsheartened and
most OF them now in camp refuse to enlist for the
.'ree years service, There now seems to be no
uoupt that the ten regiments of State Volunteer.
"no nave enlisted for three months will be left