The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-06-20
Communications.
Correspondence Of tho News.
Letter. from One Of the Hillsboro
Band.
CAMP Ellsworth, I
Washington, D. O., June Z, 1861 :


rains" Ever since the evening Of the
4th inst. we have had lots of rain
Yesterday morning hundreds Of men
awoko to find the water running under
them; many Of the tents became food
ed, and it was not until after several
hours ditching that the men we're oDa-
bled to keep the water out.
We just begin to realize what "sol-
dieriug" is. So far as the men arc con
cerned, they are pretty well supplied
but the Band have not received any
thing but coarse light overcOats, and as
we did not take the pains 90 get every
thing before we left home, believing we
would be amply supplied on reaching
Philadelphia, we end ourselves com.
PEELED to take the bare ground-damp
aud mildewed d-with such as we have
After Wednesday nights experience
with the waters, who would blame, if
some of US should happen to eight on"
some loose plank, or, as the Cincinnati
Zouaves say, "fad' a plank Hanging
on our uaiy? 1 tell you what, the sQf
stde of plank, in such weather as this,
is much to be preferred to the bare
ground.
Wednesday evening, Col Wilson
took the vote of the regiment in refer
ence to enlisting for three years, and
only 15l men and officers voted in ia
vor Of it. It is currently reported that
in consequence Of this vote Col. Wilson
and Lieut.. Col. Mason will resign
The Colonel told his men that they
would all be disbanded after Monday,
the 10th inst, if they did not enlist for
three years, but it is believed by many
that VIC will be sent to Virginia in less
than a week. tits quite certain that
the regiments around here have orders
to hold themselves in readiness to march
at any hour.
1 received a present of a very nice
Bible yesterday evening, from the
Washington Bible Society, through Mr.
NJ. H. Miller, who is engaged in dis.
tributing Bibles, Testaments, tracts and
religious books among the men of the
different regiments about here.
The Baud also received a present, on
last Sunday evening, of 10 beautiful
Testaments, one for each member,
through the Rev. P. D. Gurley. They
are the gift Of a lady of Hillsboro.--
Accompanying the Testaments was a
letter to the Rev. gentleman, request
ing him to act as agent for the donor,
and signed "H. II. c." The letter also
contains words of encouragement and
of advice, that 1 judge, from what 1
see every day, is being acted upon
We wish, through you, to return our
heartfelt thanks to the donor for these
mementoes of CLONE" and the. regards
which prompted the presentation, and
may her prayers, and the prayers of all
our friends in Hillsboro, be answered
in our behalf, aud in behalf Of our be-
loved country.
We have received but two papers
from home since We left--a copy each
of the News and Gazette, and if you
had seen us as we crowded around the
fortunate receiver, j. R. D., to hear the
news, you would have thought that
your papers were appreciated certainly
As to letters, l believe each member
of the Band has received one, and some
t,oo, since we have been here. A no
ticeabIe fact is that those written in q
small, neat hand are generally 6 to
pages of the largest letter paper il
length. Our leader, especially, is to b,
envied in this respect.
This evening looks as though tn,
"Clork Of the weather" as "Philandor
would say, had notion of putting OF
a more cheerful oountenance--in Eng
5 lish, looks like it was "going to clear
! up"
/, 1 noticed an article in a Springfield,
: (Ohio) paper to-day, commenting pret
= ty severely upon the action taken b,
+, the company from that place in rogar,
! ! to onlistiug for three years, closing
however5with the remark that no doub
the boys had some good reasons there
r for. l can say for them that at leas
= they think that they have good reasons
and that the majority Of the regiment
q would, believe, have enlisted for thre
years if they had not felt that the
have been shamefully treated ever sine
! they left home, in the matter of clothes
\. provisions, arms, and quarters.
e A Mr. Jacobs has just arrived il
IS camp from Cincinnati, loaded dow
! with trunks, filled with all manne
!. Of presents for the Rover Guards
COMPANY A. I saw the Captain wit