The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-12-26
KENOSHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1861.

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I Louis smiled ta @ t
L cannot even repent of what have done
and should do it again if there were the sam
temptation. But Of course that can never hap
pen again, he added, as grave look settled Of
! her face :; there are no more brides to commi
sin for, thank heaven But come, my friend
| let me have the only pleasure which can attach
to this sad bushes. Take your two hundred
crowns, and if you ever see an unfortunate
wight in the position from which you saved me
| Just lend him the money without waiting to bt
asked
The pedlar in a few years he'd prospered SC
WE'LL that he was able to retire from his wan
derjng life The former habitation of Louis wa:
still empty He re-itted it and offered it rent
free to his old friend, who had decided to bt
married and settle down quietly, as the French
pedlars, by their superior economy and pru
dence, are often enabled to do. .
From Our Army COrrespondent---FrOn
the list Regiment. ,aa a.
CAMP NEAR BACON CREEK, Dec. IL, 81.
Again the pillar of fire has moved on, and
we are one days journey nearer the promised
land, viz Bowling Green. We are near the
approach of great events, and it may be when
you read this that we shall have experienced q
feature of soldering that has not yet fallen to
our lot.
On the Sth inst, we received orders from our
Brigadier General to hold ourselves in readiness
for marching at a moments warning and on the
IL tn we struck our tents and started along the
route of the Louisville and Nashville R.R. Our
tents were carried on the cars and our KNAPP
sacks on the wagons, so that our march was
much easier than we had before had About 10
A. NJ of the 18th, we took up our line of march.
For the first few miles the roads were bad. and
those who had taken the precautlon at Mllwau-
kee to provide themselves with boots found
themselves amply rewarded for their extra cost
in that one days march. The march was with
out any accident of note, an unusual event in
our history. We arrived at our place of desti-
nation, distance of 10 miles, in time to pitch
our tents before dark but many of us were fore
ed to retire without straw in our tents. We
were, however, supplied the next day We are
lust beginning to realize that there is an army
here Brigades ale as plenty now as companies
have been heretofore, and every available piece
of ground in sight is covered with tents. The
bridge across Bacon Greek has been burned and
a squad has been selected from the lst to repair
it, which will be done tomorrow, when we will
probably advance to Green River, where seve-
raj Brigades are already encamped. There seems
to be an>intention to retain communication with
Louisville SO far as we go, which will make the
TRANSPORTATION of rations and mails more certain
and regular,
We are beginning to realize that winter is
approaching; we have had for two or three
nights quite frost, which it takes an hour Or
two of the mornings sun to clear away. But
we live in hopes of getting farther South before
long.
Reader, did you ever try to imagine how it
seemed to make a march 1? q speak now as u
soldier, without any reference to euchre.) There
are some thoughts and feelings connected with
it that are not to be found elsewhere, and it may
be- of interest to h ear few of them related.
The buster and confusion of starting is over
and we are fairly on the road. How far do you
suppose we shall have to go? Shall we have as
good a place to stop as we had before p? No one
knows anything about it. Tramp; tramp :
II amp. This is the first decent house We have
seen for miles OF course it's owner is wealthy
planter and has great many slaves. We won
der how many pangs of misery, how many
scalding tears and drops OF blood that mansion
has cost? Does it look as white and beautiful
from heaven as it does from the road or is the
outside clean, while within it is full of dead mems
bones, or worse still, of live mems groans-l
There, Just as we expected, back from the road,
among the hogs, cattle yards, ETC., is rude log
hut out OF which the faces of various sizes and
shapes are peeping at us. What their ideas of
us are we cannot tell, but we hope that one in
auiry will lead to another till they may learn
their true condition.
Still we tramp on. There is little wood col
pred house among those trees which must be the
residence of some northern emigrant, for no
,outherner ever had ambition enough to plant
hose shade trees or make gate before the door.
1t doesn't require great stretch offancy to i'm
sgine it is the very place the poet had in his |
mind when he sang the immortal F" Home, sweet
nome" Who was that who just passed now ?
[r is the first person we have seen in long
line that did not wear uniform. He must be
lative. And, judging from his tattered clothes,
ken cheek and blood-shot eyes, we may well
1eiieve what we have before heard that tie prin-
,ipal living of the Southerners is whlskey. That
person coming yonder with curly hair, and brown
kin must be a slave no person brought up to
consider himself a man on an equal with his fell
ow beings, could have that expression of hu.
nifty amounting to brutishisn.
But it is getting time for supper. We ought to
stop now aud get something to eat; but that
would not pay for the time we should lose, so
We MUNICH dry cracker, consoling ourselves
With the reflection that ii we have not the saliva
o swallow it with, we have plenty of time to
worry 1t down, as a chicken would meal of
lnground cern.
Tramp tramp tramp; BOUNDS we thought |
hat corn had been cured years ago, but this
march brings it out with all its former vigor.
Those old rheumatic pains are beginning to Show
themselves again just when they are least wei |
,ome And the knapsack which was very com
ortable this morning seems to bear down lit
lie harder for every mile wego. Little we thought |
|. few wears ago when we were describing this
,art of the world in our Geography class, that
We should one day Cor night be wandering, |
weary and tired over its " undulating surface
The country doesn't appear to us now much as
t then did But all this time we are going, and !
he corn aches and the rheumatism witches and
he load drags heavier and heavier How much
arther will we have to go, | wonder? The
1uartermaster rides up. Five miles farther
o 90. bows" Five miles a little while ago,
hat of itself would have been quite a journey.
But now it would be almost impossible to trav-
i it. But on we gy slow and sure. There is
window with light shining out of 1t. How
heerful and cosy it looks inside. 1t reminds
me ofanother cosy corner long way from here
where the floor is carpeted and the stove is
warm and the room dry and light Perhaps
here is vacant chair there now. How you
would like to dlop into it now. We never knew
,efore. how to realize the comforts of such
lace But we must be almost there. Three
niles to 90 yet" Can it be possible But on
We go;our thoughts contract to the limit Of step
ing around the water holes and over the hubs.
Ne get there at length, we hardly know how,
itch tents and turn in as soon as possible. The
lext me- rning we wake up rather sore, but the
ents all look familiar and the camp is altogeth
n like the last, except that the Gun rises i'll the
I orth instead of the East. w.
sickness in the Camps.
The mortality in our army from camp sick |
less is probably more than double the casual |
les of war, and there is now an amount of sick
,ess in the camps that it would be almost i'm
possible to estimate. There are regiments on
he Potomac that have not enough we'll men to
axe proper care of the sick. Out OF 5000 men
n Gen. Crittenden's Brigade at Calhoun, KY.