Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-08-02
From the Madison Journal.
Return of the Army to Washington.

From the Madison Journal.
Return of the Army to Washington.
We have been permitted to copy the follow
ing extracts from a PRIV lie letter, written on
The 24th, by Miss Coues, Principal OF The
Seminary in THIS city, at present on a visI to
her parents, " no reside al " Washington =
All day Monday. through
a pouring rain, the Troops came stIa4g!Hg
into the CITY, and more woe begone SCI YOU
never Overwhelmingly, tired. dIrtv, Wit bout
arms, and many without shoes and coats, hay-
ing marched fifteen miles, fought seven hours
and then retired lhirty-hve miles, without
ealing all this tune, and only drinking The
water III w Ich the horses had lramped and
the wounded men had been washed. The
Union men kept open houses, and went
through the streets with baskets of provis-
lous, wine dc, 10 refresh those who were IN
need All day long they
Struggled into the city, and the streets were
filled with ladies' giving refreshments, and
soldiers surrounded by groups OF civilians,
eager for accounts of the battle. Men were
lying on door steps. 90 wearIeo. % proceed
further. Occa>Ionally the small remnants Of
some regiment came in IN order, but tired,
ragged, and trailing tLejr ms. made vain
al empts 10 discover what had become of our
" lsconsIu Second, and could only learn that
Col Peck had been IN the city at ten O'Clock
Sunday a.iqit You can draw your own infer
euce-lhe men stated theirs III plain words.
At last | learned that Lieut.. Hatch. of the
Lacrosse Light Guards, was In The city. and
had been wounded. | saw him, and from his
own lips heard an &C cunt of the battle Our
men did bravely, standing IN the face of
Calling fire from battery. and fnall, took
he battery. Hatch WIS wounded AMI carried
| 10 he hospital ln>eu,Ible, but, soon recover
/ ing, craw led out, re Joined his men and brought
them off the field. Capt. Strong is SAID to
be wounded, but not seriously.
4 All our troops, with some few exceptions
among The officers, did pl,ndIdly We are
ali keeping open honses that Is zee Union
men THIS IN rnng We had nine cen soldiers
at breakfast here. The Iouaves
( (Ehsworth',) and the New York y IA are on
our square aud last night as embed for dress
/ parade. The roll of the 21th was called, and
Two hundred were repor, ed missing. They
/ lad just finished when a parry of twenty
/ Ii Z came up, and such shouts as Welcomed
/ them You never heard. Among them was a
! htfIe fellow, the pet of the regiment, who
was supposed killed. Men crowded around
him, caught him up Ia their arms, aud fairly
wepf.
DR.. Barnes of that regiment, told me that
he hau dressed the Won DIS Of eight men on
the balllc field, and Was kneellng. with his
shirt off, still at work, when q party ct scCtS-
sonI>ts came up. and though ne waved his
/ arms 10 show them he was surgeon and only
caring for the wounded, to his torror they
/ began cutting the threats OF the men whose
! wounds he had Just d essed. He fled 10 the
| ho~pl Al, leaving his Things behind rIm, and
was dressing the wound Of Col. Slocum, when
| the enemy came Upon them They tooa Col
Siocum IN a rlanket and fed. and Just as
( hey got out of reach the encnv fred the
/ hospital, which WAS filled with wounded