Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-27

| ITaD OTclart, WHY OlUeF D2CE Inc 6LlASe-
seeans and Kentuckians, before they had ap-
| preached within fifteen miles Of Crab Or
| chard: If there was no adequate cause for
| the march, why was not the whole column
halted for rest, which it so sorely needed?
If there was reason to apprehend that the
| brigade would be cut off unless it made the
| forced march, Why send the Tennesseeans
and Kentuckians back to be sacrificed? Who
viii answer:
Mt. VERNON, Nov. Is.
Thank God, the sun shines. to-day. We
| learn. this morning, that the 3Sth Ohio en-
camped FIVE miles below here late last night.
| During the night, a tree. was blown down in
| the camp, and FIVE men, including three
Tennesseeans, were seriously injured. Two
| have died, and two more are reported fatal
| ly hurt.
The SD Indiana is moving forward slowly
| in the rear, somewhere. The 44th and 18th
| Ohio lads are bowling ahead cheeSily by
company, because the sun shines and the
roads improve, besides the forced march
must end to-day. The brigade can go no
further until it gathers its scattered frag-
ments.
An order from Headquarters meets US
The only one giving relief. The column goes
into camp two miles below Crab Orchard. -
is at last in view.
In Camp.-The 18th Ohio, excepting few
feeble strsgglers, was first in camp. The
14th followed shortly after, but 1t had Its
stragglers, too. Which regiment had not
its large share? But Manny Richards, the
enterprising teamster of the 18th, pushed
in his wagons, and the Fairfield boys pitch
ed their tents merrily. But the prospects
for the other regiments was cheerless.-
Their wagons were far behind. Officers
threatened to move where shelter could be
found for the men, but orders must be all
obeyed, and they prepared again to bivou-
ack on the cold cold ground, in the freezing
atmosphere of drear November.
But now there is another order fresh from
Headquarters at Crab Orchard. Exhausted
as they are. soldiers are forbidden to burn
rails They must cut wood for bivouaek
fires, or sleep in the frosty atmosphere with
out fires. Orders must be obeyed. Twenty
men are detailed to cut wood, and wagons
are sent out. Sun set is approaching.
Headquarters, who forty hours ago knew the
men were coming, knew they were suffering,
had not provided axes. Yet the order was
cut rood Look at the field adjacent to
camp, and see whether rails were burnt.
A member of the Fourteenth, coming in
late. reports: ~ saw a dead man Of the
Fourteenth, lying on the roadside beyond
Mount Vernon."-He died of exhaustion.
Another GAYS q. saw another dead man on
the roadside to-day" lie died Of exhaus-
lion. \ surgeon says saw TWO men,
Yesterday, in the last sage q exhaustion.
gave them whisky 10 revive them. could
do nothing else. ! was compelled TO leave
them with their comrades, and attend to the
sick CT my own regiment. They probably
died o: exhaustion
Nov. lTth-CEAR ORCHAED.-The 3SIh
Ohio and the SD. Indiana are coming IN
slowly. The former was mere deliberate,
but suffered its proportion. The latter are
sleeping in the woods without tents know
not whether the TennesseesE. have got back
safely to London.
There i not much beauty. CT gaiefy IN 4
soldiers life, if II IS Ike this But the toll,
and suffering, ami sacrifces, and The manly
efforts OF brave neu obeying orders under
circumstance such s. | have sEetched- are
very eloquent. VIII soldiers respect, love,
and eheerfully fight under ctTcers who
abuse them as slaves DO brutes.
Tie amount Of physical suffering caused
by this march cannot De computed. None
can tell how many sterdy frames viii bend
under disease contracted from this ruthless
exposure. The mortality list OF the regi-
ments will shortly begin to make q record
Many of the sick who were dragged out of
their beds in the London hospitals, to be
tortured on the rugged roads. saturated
with rain, and chilled with cold, must die.
Many of the well must fall i'll. All, well,
there are only $50 sick in the 33d Indiana;
only couple of hundred or so sick in the
18th Ohio; only a hundred or so sick in the
3Sth Ohio; only several scores sick in the
18th Ohio; only few hundreds altogether.
If they die-recruit the regiments.
The loss Of property is nothing. The
Government is rich. Only 80 horses be-
longing to the 18th Ohio were knocked up
and rendered unfit for service, and one died;
one wagon was lost and $4,000 pounds of
about the same report is made |
by the 14th Ohio; so with each of the regi |
ments. But the moral effects of the coun- |
termarch is one of its worst features. The |
of Kentucky regard it re- |
treat, and the prestige of the victory at !
Wildcat is turned against us. And so ended |
the great Cumberland Gap Expedition.
But beg you to wait, readers, for an |
echo from the Wild Cat Brigade. If mis- |
take not, there will be fierce growl ere |
long from the Tennessee camp, as vehement |
rs the dentheiation from 'tEast Tennessee
which you read day or two ago in the |
Commercial. And l am inclined to believe |
that if the indignant letters of the Ohio and |
Indiana boys are permitted to see the light |
of public print, none will think l have col
Orcd the foregoing picture, W. ID. B.