Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-12-12

| to be done. When We leave camp. Denuf
SOIL. hope to have something more inter.
esting to write. We heard 10 day thai
YOU have sleighing "a H dimes, county.
There is nc. snozs here. The friends need
not delay writing to us, because they ex
pect us to leave soon.. If letters are prop
erly directed. they will follow the, Regi
ment wherever it may 60. Our company
mailed near ninety letters in neday.l@
qrTETTr WILLIAM BUCHANAN. -
Fur the Repubiiean.
CAMP DENNIsoN, NoY. 30ih, 1861. :
To THE FRIENDs, In HOLMES COUNTY
In accordance with a promise made to
some of the friends of the soldiers, | un-
dertake what TO me is a hard task; viz.
addressing them through the columns o.
a public. newspaper. If our friend, Mr.
.CAsKEY, will find some little corner fol
my few scribblings, l shall do my best to
entertain you with an account of SOU
first march," As is usual with soldiers
we could tell nothing about the time o.
our departure from Camp Tifin, until il
was close at hand. About O'Clock
Wednesday afternoon, we received orders
to strike tents, and BY three o'clock were
ready TO leave with one days rations il
our haversacks, thrown over our shoulders
and knapsacks strapped to our backs, max
ing us look and feel as though we were in,
deed soldiers. q, Weimarcbed or rather wa
ded through the mud TO the depot, where
we found the cars waiting for US. We inn
med;ately went, on board, but did moi
start until pm. Six men were detailed
from each company for guards, to prevent
the soldiers from running out and in the
cars as we passed along the road. We ar.
rived in Columbus about ga. M, and laid
there until daybreak. We then had day
| light for the remainder of the trip. We
saw some beautiful bottom land as we run
over this part of The road. 1t looked
quite different from the hills of Little
Holmes. At Xenia we took the Little
Miami road and followed the windings Of
the stream down to our present situation,
arriving here about p. M, Thursday
We found unfinished barracks, no supper,
and any amount of mud. We had scarce
ly been in camp 20 minutes, until several
old women and boys came into camp with
baskets filled with pies ard apples. l.
was amusing TO see the hungry soldiers
crowd around them to get something to
eat. Such .crowding! such pushing! such
shouting of ''give me pie" show do you
sell your. pies p "what kind of pies have
you = each trying to speak the loudest, and
be the first to get 10 the baskets. You
may bet, that, between buying and steal
ing, the pies were soon all in the bands Of
the soldiers. s.5-.t..-J .saxaF .e5i,,l8
Il must tell you what kind of barracks
we have. There are ten large buildings
to regiment. one for each company. ]
will give you faint description of ours
and then you will have an idea how the
rest look, for they are all alike. The build
ing is l20 feet long and 25 feet wide;
there are three doors and five windows in
it. We have 9S bunks, each six and a
half feet long and two and half feet wide,
placed in three tiers along the sides of the
building. The lower tier isabout Is inch
es, the second 4 feet, and the third feet
from the floor,. They are intended for
one man to the bunk, but as it is cold at
night, the boys prefer sleeping two in n
bunk and uniting their covers. BY this
means they manage to keep comfortable.
We are to have two stoves in this ROOM
Behind this room is another building
about l 6 by 20 feet, intended for a cook
ing room. The Capt. and Lieutenanis
have small building to the right, and a
little back of the front of the company
barracks. This is divided in two rooms,
but l do not know how it will be finished
off, in the inside. s sd. s -.l l,,I. .ys-f
sessso'ls sllaJ q Monday, Dec. 2.
We have been engaged in carrying
gravel and making walks in front CT cur
quarters ever since we came here. We
were taken, yesterday, to the summit OF
a nice little knoll out side of the guard
line, where we had nice view of Camp
Dennison. Some say, that from the top
of this knoll we can see across the Ohio
river into Kentucky. / know that we can
see great distance. There are nine regi-
meuts encamped here; three infantry,
three cavalry, two artillery, and one Zou-
ave.. The boys are all well and in good
spirits, with the exceptions of ALFRED
Nixon and GEORGE WEATHERwAx, who
have. been quite sick, but are now getting
better. Capt. Tanneyhilrs company are
all well, | believe. You must excuse all
mistakes. | have written this amid the
noise of the whole company, and not being
used to writing where there is so much
noise around, You will probably find a
great many mistakes. IS I. B. LINN.