Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-08-07
Military Correspondence.
CAMP Easement, Va,

IAAP Va
July 20. 1861.
Editors C6ronice:-We have once moro
come to a full stop, after another wrong
march. / cay urong from the fact that
however well accustomed to marching a
body of men may be. still they get weary
on a long march, and are glad to stop and
rest, but only for a few days.
= cannot better interest nay readers than
by giving them a record Of our proceed
ings from the date Of my lastletter, though
/ hardly know when my last letter was
written, where, or wha. it contained. It
is very seldom We receive a paper from
home. / have not seen 4 Democrat since
l came into Virginia, and but u ChrOni-
Gle later than the 25th Of june. I rcceiv-
ed two packages of papers yesterday. One
package contained the Chronicle Of ths
q and Is June, the other the 10th July
The boys caught up those papers much as
q drowning man would catch at q straw.
If our friends could fully appreciate oul
condition as to q supply Of reading mat
ter, they would send Vi more papers
When | left home l thought I was decent
ly well posted in what was going on in the
world, but now if = person should ask me
70 tell him the Capital of the State Of
Ohio, l should not deem it safe to make q
reply as it may have been changed a doz
en- times since I heard from the State.
We have had more excitement since l
last wrote you than before. During the
last few days of our stay at Chenille, our
men were being fred upon by the rebels
but generally without effect One of our
pickets was shot in the right side by one
of the r~ascals, and the Captain Of the
same Co. had horse shot from under him.
That occurred last Sunday. We imme,
diately organized a force to 60 out and at
tack them in their eDcampment, which we
supposed was at the mouth of Sand Fork
on the bank Of the Little Kanawha- Eff
ty men were detailed from Co. H., Co. B.
and Co. E, making l5e in all, under COM
wand of Capt Asper. 1 went in com
uand Of Co. H, Lieut.. Case remaining in
command Of the men left Ia Ca0p. The
men from Co. II. and Co. B. left camp at
z o'clock P. II. Sunday, taking the road
toward Weston. After proceeding on that
road four miles, We strTck into a bride
path single flc, asd passed e a range
of hills to the head waters of Sand Fork.
There VIC took two rebel prisoners, who
had come direct from the army. From
there VIC made directly down the Sand
Fork, til within one mile Of its mouth,
when Co. B. struck into q bride path and
crossed q range Of hills to the BraxtOn
road. In tho meantime Co. E had lef!
camp, (at IL midnight) and taken a posi-
ton within one mile of the mouth Of Sand
Fork. The attack was to be made at the
moath of this stream. BY the three parties.
at precisely 9 o'clock in the morning. AT
81 o'clock we moved forward, and met the
two other parties at the desired time and
place, bit not a rebel ras to be found
They had learned Of our approach and ev-
cry one acd. We called at several seces-
sion houses. but the men lDere not at home.
would make proper apologies to the Ia
dies for calling on them at so late an hour,
(or perhaps SO early an hour and then
proceed to search the houses. We took
six very fine horses. and three prisoners.
1 captured a splendid young morse for my
self. We arrived at Glenville at 6 O'Clock
A. NJ. Monday, after a march of 81 miles.
Tuesday night at Z O'Clock P. NJ. the s
Companies Of the 18th located at Chenille,
took up the line of march toward Bull
Town. We had heard If a force at the
Ford on the Little Kanawha, some 20
southwest from Glenville. The
nlan for the attack was, that s companies
of the 9TH regiment under command CT
Lieut.. Col. Creighton, should attack them
in front, and while they were thus engag-
ed Col. Tyler would attack them in the
rear, with a large force consisting Of 2
companies from the eth. Ohio, the entire
18th Regiment and . companies from the
Virginia lst regiment, making a force Of IA
90 men. The first night our force proceeded
l2 miles and then laydoWn on the ground T
the remainder Of the night. Wednesday
morning VIC went forward to within 81 miles
Of whore We supposed the rebels were en-
trencked, and halted to allow Col. Tyler
to come up in The rear. At P. N. We
again advanced. passing through the worst
c luntry in which tc meet an enemy that
| ever saw. 1t was N continued wall of
rocks on either side Of the road. We
threw out our aankers in front andin rear.