, 1861-07-17


Gunner, Sunday, July II, 1861.
The Nineteenth Regiment arrived here last
evening, as telegraphed you. The train was
welcomed by cheers and by waiying and rails
ing Of flags at every station we passed after
daybreak. At Kewanee the whole country,
fer miles around, seemed to have turned out
to greet US. Company G, Elmira Rifles, Capt.
Stuart, MAS from Elmira, miles distant, and
hosts Of people we're there to bid friends good
bye, and cheer them on their way. Mrs. Stu
art told her husband that they had $50 acres Of
wheat Ill ready to harvest. Judge Howe
treated the Rifles to box Of segars, and his
wife gave them as much cake and stfixins'' as
they could eat. Linus D. Bishop rolled into
the officers car barrel Of ale with Ice to cool
1t, A company Of artillery and one of Home
Guards, with thousands Of people, had waited
from 2 O'Clock until 10 to welcome us. Thou
sands ofpeople were ont at Galcsburg to cheer
us as we passed, and so on all the way, with
only the difference that, if possible, the cheers
were more hearty as VIC came nearer Missouri.
Surgeon B2i1ache did not find t11a man it was
thought fell from the cars, and It Is supposed
to have been mistake.
The regiment encampcd at Camp FIagg last
night, where Col. Pa1mer's regiment had been,
before going over to Missouri. To-day 1t
crosses the river to occupy ground now occu-
pied by a part Of Col Grants regiment. Col
G. viii move forward on the railroad to the
west. The headquarters of the 19ta viii
probably be at Palmyra Men are being
rapidly equipped to-day for the move across
the river. The regiment is in need Of some
things Chicago might supply perhaps. The
officers are not fully supplied with horses.
fan you do anything to supply their needs in
Chicago: Badly as the regiment is supplied
with equipments, I have heard officers and
men very highly comp1imcnted by people
here. Col. Smith, who was 50 promptly rein
forced by Coils Palmer md GRANTS regiments
the other day. has his regiment scattered
alcng the line Of the railroad, as Is Palmer's
and GrAnt's. Adjutant General Mather and
Brigadier General Hurlbnt arc both here /
net G. ]. senon, of the Springfield Journal,
this morning, and accompanied him to the
camp Of Col. Grant, to whom he carried orders
from Bngadier General Hurlbut. He came
up from Springfield as one Of the guards of
Gov. Wood, and was one of the Gov.
ernor's party that first passed from here to
Monroe after the rebels surrounded Colonel
Smith He gave me the following report Of
the tip: The Governor Was accompanied BY
Col. c. G. Rutherford and s. D. Hubbard, as
his Etad, and twelve guards, one Of which was
McLe11en. He had one cannon In charge Of
his party from Springfield, one belonging to
an artillery company Of twenty men from
Quincy, and also enc company Of infantry,
Capt. Dunning, Of Decatur. fhe party left
Quincy on Thu1ndsy, on the steamer Black
Hawk, went down some nine miles, and
landed uear Marion City, and took up
Line OF march west towards Palmy-
"a. The bluff at the place where they
landed WAS some three miles from tho river,
and while marching this distance through very
tai grass they frequently saw scouts Of rebels
riding On either side Of them. At the foot Of
the bluffs the party came ont to the view Of
the rebels, who, on seeing them fed. Here
they found small secession flag which they
took along, in spite of the remonstrance Of
tsa some ;a; tTenty "emsp 9 IT They learned soon a.
rebels had burned bridge on the Quincy and
Pa1myra Railroad. At Palmyra the party
stopped over for the night, and the next
morning went on towards Monroe; the cayal-
y and artillery by the dirt rosd and infantry
By he railroad. They found The rails torn up
1Ey the track. They saw some twenty or thir-
II horses tied near the road, but there were
60 men with them. When they reached Mon
roe they fou1d Col Smith had been relieved
hy detachment Of his owu regiment, q uader
Lieut.: Colonel Hays, and BY Iowa troops. The
train IN which the party returned on Friday
WIS fired into, but no damage done, save one
of the horses was slightly wounded In the
neck by buck-shot. r n reports of Union
men at Palmyra, Gov, Wood arrested Ar.
Thomson, a prominent lawye yer there, and took
him to Monroe, where he Wns released. Mr.
se]}en reports Cspts. McAllister and Hotch.
kiss, who were wounded at Monroe during the
attack on Col Smith, as doing well. He says
two 9-pourd balls passed through the building
from side to side, but the rebel shots we're
not well directed. Smith has nor some six
or eight cannon, with nearly 5000 troops near
him. There seems to be great want of cay
airy for the guerilla var which the rebels
Seem disposed to carry on.
am informed that the Germans Of Missou-
ri are I'll loyal, while it is hard to find an
American In this part Of the State that Is.
Friday evening wealthy secessionlst by the
name Of John Owen, who was supposed to be
tie leader Of the party who burned the cars
and the station house, tore up the rails, dc,
was taken prisoner by Government troops.
It is said bis buildings were burned and about
150 horses and mules we're taken, which be-
longed to him. ;. It is thought that he will be
hung.
Bdgadier General Hurlbut is hard at work
to-day and you Hsy look for fighting, or run.
ming, in Northeastern Missouri, soon. There
is large body of rebels some 35 miles north
west Of Monroe