Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-28

Camp OF HtckentoopeT's Otnctnndh battery
Consbuetiag Fortifcations - The Rebel
Jdekson's Camp = Cold Weather - THe
General Hospital = Node Of BBriaI-A
SOiree-SOciety, etc.
CAMP CoRwINE, NEAR JEFFERSON CITY, MO- .
To ne Editors of he Daily Press.
The camp of the Fifth Ohio Battery is sit
uated on a hill Just east of the city, and
commands as fine q view of the town and
surrounding country as can be had anywhere
in this hilly region, excepting, of course, the
dome Of the State-house. About two hum
dred feet beyond our camp there is a fortif-
cation, and at about the same distance from
u.s. between our camp and town, is another
and larger one. On the first of these we
have been hard at work for week past with
shovel and spade, pick and wheelbarrow. 1t
is now completed on two sides with breast
work and ditch, and is intended to be manned
by q six-gun field battery. 1t is intended,
ALSO TO build a block house on each Of the
other two sides, in the lower stories OF which
the horses may be put on occasion, while the
upper stories will be occupied by riflemen.
The inner and large work will be mounted
with heavy siege guns and will be the prin-
cipal defense in this direction. The works,
all around the city, are placed with sdmira-
BILE judgment, and command the approaches
in every accessible direction.
A iiItie further out this road is the spot
where the rebel jackson was encamped with
his men when in this vicinity. The tall
stakes, with long poles running between
them, covered with branches and dead leaves,
indicate a scarcity of canvas for tents
in the rebel camp, and the consequent adop-
| ton of the bivouac style. If the poor devils
have nothing better over them now, their
| position is not to be envied them, for we
have a regular freeze every night.
| There are from three to four hundred pa
| tients in the hospital at this place, and five
or six are buried every day. This is not a
particularly unhealthy locality, nor is there
an unusual amount of sickness in the army,
but it is to be remembered that this is the
General Hospital for Fremonts whole army.
The burying ground is just beyond our
camp. The deceased soldier is placed in q
plain mahogany coffin, and, covered by the
American flag, is conveyed to the grave in
| an open, two-horse wagon, accompanied by
| nine soldiers with overcoats and knapsacks
on, and arms reversed, without music of any
| kind. The body is lowered into the ground,
a voley is fred over it, the grave is filled
up, and piece of unplaned board marked
| with the name, company and regiment OF
| the deceased, placed at the bead of it, the
| two horse wagon trots back to town, and all
| is over.
am not particularly sensitive, certainly
not morbidly so, but there is something in
expIessibly cad in the death and burial of a
soldier in this way, far removed from home
and friends, and unrelieved by the noise, oc.
cupation of mind, glory and excitement o.
battle.
We were present the other night at little
social party given in Jefferson, but can moi
say much Ior the society of the place. It is
| nhahl in nt plo in he
South-Seceseion is fashionable, and all the
first families" l. e. the richest ones, arC
either absent, or else keep close at home, be-
ing unwilling to mix in with the Northern
mud -sills. Well, who cares Guess we car
stand it. A. B. B.