The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-09-27

reveile and roll call CT A. NJ, breakfast;
Ito 8 O'Clock, squad drill 8:l5, guard
mounting $50, doctors call 8 to 10,
officers and non.commissioned officers
drill 1890 TO IL, squad drill 1890,
dinner 2 p. NJ, officers recitation 8
O'Clock, non. commissioned officers recita-
ton 4:30 to $3.50, squad drill o'clock,
retreat and dress parade $3.50, tattoo /;
8 o'clock, taps. At all of these times,
at which the Company is called out for
squad drill, &C., the roll is called, and a
report each time made to the Captain -
Ii any are absent without written excuse
from the Surgeon or Colonel, the "guard
house" is their destination. There is
but little chance for roguery or deception,
and 0N must do their duty. The guard
around the camp (I8 of them,) to-day
are police guard TO morrow. whose duty
il is to sweep and clean up the whole
camp twice each day; consequently, we
"do things decent!y aud in ORDER"
There are OILY two full Companies in
camp-the Hitchcock Guards and Capt.
Bushnel's Company from Trumbuil. -
There are seven more Companies here,
nearly full. Unless some OF them should
be consolidated. there 10 room for only
one more Company here. There are l02
men in our Company. Our boys age still
enjoying themselves finely. Those who
go home on furlough, invariably, are
anxious 10 return, and are always back
"on iime."
We have "put our hands 10 the p!ow,"
and are not OF the kind "to turn back. -
We are Offering our lives we know but,
if the sacrifice be necessary, "Thy will be
DONE" This Government and its bless.
ings are worth more than our lives, and Ill
we car do aught to sustain it, freely il
shall be done. While there are many
who cannot go with us, but whose SYM
pathy we have, still they are helping US in
word and deed. How much more lsud
able such, than those sniveling "compro-
msers" who talk about "compromising"
with armed rebellion L! and tell US 'Uncle
Sam can foot his own bills; shall not
help p his soldiers !" Reasoning as logical
as The midnight assassin's, who presents
his revolver at your head, and demands
your oil or your life! Such men, with
hearts blacker than the shades of Erebus,
are fit co-operators with traitors. lie,
them be known, and thank Heaven they
nil be known, and spotted, Too. at our
Fall election. Any man who loves not
his country well enough to bury the par.
tisap, and come forward and vote the
Union ticket-"God and victory lis loo
mean to be called patriot, and, should
be branded as a traitor LIE: us get liJ
Of traitors at home then talk Of rebellion
abroad. "God save the Union - is the
prayer Of many. But will God save this
Union, If we, recipients Of its greatest
blessings, make no effort 10 save il our.
selDes? With right, truth, justice, God
aiding us, we wH save the Union, and
trample treason in the dust, and, for the
leaders OF this great rebellion, on the
plains Of South Carolina. shall be erected
a huge, black cross, upon which Mes
shall be crucified. there TO hang. thei
bones to bleach in the rain and sunshine
inscribed on their skulls. TRAITORS" a.
a testimony TO all coming generations
that treason can never flourish in this free
prosperous and mighty Confederacy
Thus feel, thus have written.
Yours truly, E. A. F.