Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-04
Our Army Correspondence.
LETTER FROM ALE. BURNETT.

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am writing Mr.. Stettinus is still dealing it
out 10 the companies.
This is one Of the meanest cold, bleak, dismal,
dark, desolating, dreary days we have yet
had. Snow has been tipping us the wink,
as much as to say, Ahl hal how do you
like my appearance2" A chilling wind is
blowing, and of that character which pene-
trates to your very bones.
The boys, all over camp, wherever an AK
is attainable, are busy employed chOppipg
down trees, and blazing fires are as abundant
as tents. Ice made its appearance upon the
water left standing in buckets over night,
and toes are turned toward the ground with
q rat-a-tat motion, indicating that a little
eHertion is required to keep the blood circu-
laSing in the pedal extremities. Noses look
blue, and the mittsns sentby the girls, (what
an 7iess Cincinnati girls giving the boys the
mitten just at this time, )are used 10 warm the
ears the recipients. have just tretlled airy
ing pan with large Goals and taken it into my
tent, and thGs toast my shins in magnih-
cent style.
The comforts sent were comfortable in
deed, and hundreds have told me to not for
get and give their lOUe to all who were 80
kind as to send any thing.
Mr.. Foppe, of the firm of Foppe & Langeu-
helm, near Mound, on Fifth street, was on
the ground to-day, and received orders and
took the measure of one hundred and thirty
soldiers for fine high-top boots, at 81 80 per
pair. These are promised the regiment in
| three weeks time. He has already made
| fifty or sixty pairs for officers and men.
1t isastonishing how rapidly men in the
service become profane. Why, l never be-
fore appreciated the oft-quoted phrase, "He
swesrs like trooper" Young men whom
noticed for their urbanity and quiet de-
meanor, now use language unbecoming
| gentleman under ordiaary circumstances;
but here it is overlooked, because every body
does it; but to my mind, it is custom that
should be more honored in the breach than
| the observance"
Gambling, too Oh, how they take to.itl
oh, its just for pastime, says one. Yes, but
it is pastime that will grow and grow, and
drag many a one to ruin. | am glad to hear
that Colonel Anderson has issued an order
foThiddiDg the practice, under penalty of
con6scation of the funds. Among the many
ways of svadiDg this law that the boys have,
is going out of camp in squads and taking a
quiet game, as they call it, in the woods.
But winter is driving them to their tents
rapidly.
Beans are very high ont here. have
known quite number of our officers to pay
as high as five cents piece for beans; in
fact, saw a number of officers pay that price
for ihem.
Charley Brutton said he intended to make
bean soup out of his Sometimes while
stood looking at parties around table count
ing their beans, one would say, Ten beans
better than you." / suppose that meant his
ten beans were better beans than his oppo-
nenrs but then they would lay ten along
side, and presently they all show some pic
ters," and then one man takes all the beans,
ard zone man. looks pleased, and all the
others kind O. sour.
Captain Clarke says it is very bad prac.
tice, and Dick Soutbgate, Frank ErhRan,
and thoLe pack more coincide with him
and they ought to kRoD-and they all declare
that henceforth they buy no more beans.
Our postal facilities are bad, very bad.
know not why it is, but papers and letters
coming by private conveyance reach here
three and four days quicker than by mail
Frequently ten and twelve days interval
occur between the sen ding and the receipt OF
letter. If we stay here this winter it will
be, suppose, much worse.
3 1t is a settled fact, that DR., Stevens, for
merly of Cincinnati, is to be the Surgeon Of
this regiment. / have heard him highly
1 spoken of as a kind and warm hearted man
If such is the case, with the aid of two such
generous sons of Hsculapius as DR.. Davis
: and DR.. Ames, the friends of the Sixth Ohio
. may rest assured of kind treatment for those
who are sick.
The season of parties has fairly set in, and
"iorums of punch are nightly made and
: drank before huge fire, and although there
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|, refinement in language, yet the boys manage
to survive. ASgood chaplain would be o
, great Strvice out'herey and l am sure woulC
be kindly received AS it now is, Sunday
? comes and goes without our knowledge. -
Since last wrote, the trees have been en-
| tirely stripped of every thing green, ant
barren and dresr enough is every thing OF
the hillsides. Here and there you may se
q the crimson flush upon the laurel shrub, aut
q begin to feel like the fellow in the beauti
/ ful play written by William Henry Shake
speare, ESQ.,, of the Three Fast Hen, where
: about he sayS Especially 81 want to g
homeSn
8 .JSeGtenant BiIlbeck has resigned Captai
4 sErwin gone home on brief flrlough; Cap
tain Wescott is in Cincinnati, recruiting 70
= the regiment. Captain Zeke Tatem is ais
i away, and the boys all anxious to see him.
a Captain Bense is a prisoner, also Lieuten
4 ants Schsffer and Gilman" Onward I
d Richmond'-Colonel Bosley away. te
n you our regiment is slim Of officers, on par
n ade; but the boys, l guess, will fight q
readily and willingly under any other man.
= Talk about your fighting men. Captai
= Wilmington says he's got the best fightln
y company on the ground in fact he say
e they are fighting all the time-just to kee
a their hands in. They are cal ed "rhe Tigers.
e Once in while"Fhe Pets" as the Captai
q calls them, gettogether, and it is quite trou
Al blesome to part them; but this is only "occt
! siOnaly"-t for instance, when there is plent
a of "oil" in the camp, and there isn't enoug
10 go ronnd then they have a 'high oil
"a time" for of such is the Kingdom Of Ell
" water. But joking aside, | don't b.
u leve there is harder or more active 81
IA of boys on the ground than can be found i
a. Company @. There are men at all times
" be'found who, when wine is in, the wits al
d out" and no company is an exception to th
general principle. = -
/. Colonel Narrow, Colonel of the Thir
"A Ohio, one of the most efficient men 10 OF
d brigade, was telling me a story of "Old Sto
\ icaT" Virginian and resi- dent 'hard by
ID Stonicar has had much trouble Stonicar
fences have been used for fre-wood-
Z camp for fre.wOod-c coTn-felds for fodder
i, apple trees stripped. StOnicar's family we
10 sick. "One of the Oldest gals" he told D
a. Ames, "had the sojer's fever" He ''euesst
she must O. cOtched it from the Third Obi
ss the sojers kept a-comin' to his house
le much" One day he sent for Colonel Mo
J; row, and the Colonel going thther, Stonic
OF told him one of his children was dead, ar
Is that be had nothing to bury the child i
.. The Colonel, who is a kind-hearted nobl
It man, had neat wooden coffin made, lent hi
st an ambulance and horses, and assisted pc
ID sonally at the burial at which the old ms
s; took on "amszngly."
10 An hour or two after the funeral the o
N man strolled up to the COlonePs quarters.
d, "Colonel," said he as the tears roll
lls down his checks, "Oolonel, what will do
6r The GOlonal thinking ha was mOurni,