The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-12-05
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CAMP BUELL., WEST PorNr, HARDIH2
Co., Ky,Nov, 28th, 1861.
| MesSr$. EditorS:
have desired to send you letter for publica
ton during the last week or two but the truth is
feel myself honorably bound to reserve those
matters with which my mind is most occupied ,anc
with which you and your readers would be mos
! interested
| 1t has been repeated over and over again, "a
aauseans, that the First Regiment is everything g
Military Corps should be- With this reputation
let us rest satisfied one thing L know-that its
own officers and men have not used the press to
puff their Regiment
This is Thanksgiving Day in Wisconsin and in
Kentucky. We had grand programme for the
Day-Divine Service at IL A. NJ, the gloria IN e.c
eISis and the Star Spangled Banner to be sung
address by the Chaplain. At } P. M, dinner for
the Regiment, turkeys chickens, &C., the officers
paying the generous bill Alter dinner, sword
was to have been presented to Col. Starkweather,
with silver scabbard and mountings, with the best
sash that could be procured in the market These
articles were sent for to New ork. They are the
gift of officers of the Regiment, Capt. Samuel, OF
Company F. making the Presentation address,
But alas during last night two of our men died
Their names are, Alexander Sutton, of Company
G, residence, Rochester, Racine Co., and Almond
Knight, of Gibbsville, Sheboygan Co. The order
of the day is therefore changed, The flag is at
halfmast, the men will cook their own dinners as
usual the funeral services will be held at P. NJ
gl0ria in ercelSis will not be sung, but the hymn
6. would not live always, SC" Thus Man pro
poses and God dispose5 The rain is pouring
down in torrents and our camp is a sea of mud
and water if that expression may be allowed The
sword presentation will not come off to-day; but
it is an important part of the sold ers discipline
to submit without murmur to disappointment,
| / have therefore, not heard man say he was eoT-
~ things were as they with us to-day
| Many of the men and officers, the Col among
the number have wept at the death of the boy
above refe, red to. The Col quite tender heart
ed yesterday he sent up to the Hospital bottle
of his OLD Port for the use of the sick. This sym
pathy with the men is the secret of his power. -
There is no officer that incommodes the men as
much. He has the long roll beaten ottentimes
when we think there is no necessity for it. That
is he has the soldiers started from their blankets
in the dead hour of the night, simply to see how
many minutes it will take them to get ready for a
forced march or to resist surprising party He
was gratified one night to learn that it took just
five minutes He sends two companies out on
picket every night, sometimes in the rain, always
in the cold, when the enemy is known to be sixty
miles from us But all this is borne, and maay
other hardships which lie causes. The Col. or
ders it that is all that is sufficient and it gives
us full assurance that when the Col. shall order a
charge on Simon Bolivar Buckner, that the thing
WILDE done with 9 three cheers and tiger"
We are still in this camp, you perceive, although
we had expected TO be very near Green River by
this time Preparations for moving, however, are
going briskly on. Several ofthe men are keeping
Thanksgiving by shooting the horses for the trans,
portation. Others are breaking the most break
neck horses, by making them draw the great wag-
ons with their hind wheels chained.
We have troops enough and of such quality
now in this State, that can give this assurance
the flag of the Union shall continue to wave In
Kentucky. l cannot say, on the other hand, how
long the signal of rebellion shall disgrace the
State. A well informed rebel might better give a
guess on this subject.
There is no serious illness in the Park City
Crews" Delos Wattles is selected as wagner for
the company and John Ames is chosen wagner
for the Colonel and staff, Both of these young
men are doing well. Their present position will
try them, as they have privileges which may prove
disastrous. We hope not
Are your readers aware that we are at the ia
nous Maldrov H7H which Buckner made des
peratc effort to secure when he fell back from
Louisville Failing to keep this point.he fell back
sixty miles "What a fall was there,mY country
men" This hill now bristles with cannon which
serve to project the approach TO Louisville on the
road from Nashville and Bowling Green. We are
camped in most miserable hole, but there is no
better place near the fortified hill and on the Lou
isville side thereof. The health of the Regiment
will be greatly impaired If we stay here much
longer The 9Th Michigan Regiment now here,
have 327 sick They have had several deaths,
Our Surgeons have been ordered to aid in taking
care of their sick. We are all anxious that it
should freeze up tight. Kentucky the Italy OF
America Give me old Wisconsin Z.
p. S.-Jeff Davis is to hold court at Nashville
this winter ms we learn. We may, therefore, be
hold the triumph or the flight of his Majesty.
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