Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-17
Cur Army Correspondence.
LETTER FROM ALE. BURNETT.
CAMP AT ELKwATER, VA,
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down with mountain fever; tries in vain to
sleep bowling dog belonging to Captain
Russell's "brigade" keeps up such an internal
noise it makes me mad; wish Captain Russell
bad the dog with him Il was raining when
I wrote you last; think we had Just been
flooded out. Well, the sky again assumed a
- mean appearance, and two hours after
ward the regiment received marching orders.
BY four O'clock about five or six hundred
all that were fit for duty-were on the tramp
once more, over the same God-forsaken road
they had been deluged in; scarce an hour
passed when the heavens (Which seem to
have an especial spite at the Sixth) opened
her foodgates, and this is now part Of the
third day since they have been out and still
it rains. All wonder is how in Heavens
nsme any are alive; but the boys bear up
under it nobly, remembering, suppose, the
Shakspearean passage, slightly altered, of
"The same clouds that lower upon the house of abe
Look irowDingly upon JEFF Davis"
Our men may truly be said to be ragged
and sassy" Very many are shoeless-aud
with (not white) flag of truce protruding
from their rear. The service out in these
woods and mountains wear ont three
times the quantity of clothing q soldier
would upon any ordinary occasion. Some
are very careless, but many are helplessly
almost naked. Our officers have in vain
used every exertion TO get apparel for the
men, but ike the paymaster, apparel is hard
to get hold of-but bark sound the "hugag,'
beat the tombrel, ring the bells the news is
just received per a rider, upon poor, jaded,
broken-down horse, whose very vitals mot
victuals, for he has not had any for q monthl
seem fast ebbing, that Theodore Marsh with
big stick is right behind the pdymaSter at
Beverly. The cheering intelligence makes
all happy, and no more saddened faces will
be seen after he arrives.
Our men have been sorely tantalized by
seeing regiment after regiment of Indiana
volunteers, men who had only been two aud
three months in the service, paid off before
our very eyes; they have for the last month
been running round our camp with five, ten
and twenty dollar gold pieces, shaking them,
| jingling them in our ears.
Add Colwell, Corporal Add, paid an In
dianian, three slices of bacon, two pints OF
beans and half pound of coffee just to let
him heft one of the pieces and rub one eye
with the 500. Talking of Add, why don't
Wash Armstrong send him the ginger. bread
he promised. Colwen is a good printer
| Colwell is good writer-and last and best
fall, he can eat more ginger bread than any
| man in the regiment.
Since the gloom cast over the camp by the
| death by accidental shooting of Lieutenant
Bidwell, Company H has again been subject
TO another calamity. Mr. Hopkins, whose
brother accompanied the corpse of Lieuten.
ant Bidwell TO your city, was cutting down
chestnut-tree while on picket duty abou
| three miles from camp; as the tree com.
mer ced bending, young Hopkins went be-
hind the tree apd gave it one cut, when with
tremendous force it snapped and broke
striking him upon the shoulder and shoul
| der blade, causing fracture of the collar
bone and shoulder blade and dislocation o
the arm, and, it is supposed, an injury to the
sub clavisn artery. Under the assiduous at
tention of DR.. Ames he is doing as well a
could possibly be expected.
Company II seems to be very unfortunate
A private named Allen, a few days since
shot off his forefDger, then the death of Lieu
tenant Bidwell and yesterday the case O.
| Hopkin ins. Charley BruttoDy Ut does seeu
strange that you snor any other man" OF
paper ever get-thez Captains name spelled
to sag, Captain B. has q very exalted opinion
Of bis men, in fact thinks his ars the best OF
the ground. Well he does turn out a big
crowd, and with an agility that all MAJ
envy. Captain is not well, so "Sherry," tht
tragedian took,th boys this tramp and tht
Captain looksforlorn and wishes he had gonC
any bow.
We have some jovial times out here, rain
or shine. A cOnvocation of good fellows me-
at Captain Abbott's quarters, Third Ohio
Regiment. Captain A. is from GAINESVILLE
Captain McDougal, of Newark, Captain Dant
of Athens, Captain ROssman, of Hamilton
LieuteDants House and Swasey of Columbus
LieuteDants Bell and Dale of Newark-no
forgetting Miles, the smiling, good hearted
Suter Miles, of the Seventeenth Indiana
Qusrtermaster Shoemaker, Andy Hail. J
w. Slanker W. b. Sheridan and your cor
respondent, all of the Sixth Ohio, made a
the Iarty. The Landlord filled his fl JwiDI
bowl, y, and stories, songs and recitation
were the order of the evening, and the glow
worm began to show the matin to be near,
ere we started TO separate. Now, Miles iu'
vited those who would to 90 over 10 hi:
palace, and promised the party a sardue
supper; accordingly but few refused the in
vitation. Now Miles had jug of neautiful
$50 he called it) oil, right from the Thurstou
House at Paris, Bourbon County, Ky. Thi:
| oil was put to good use, and soon box o
| herring were opened, aud again speeches
were made. The meeting was called to order
! by the tat Quar- Itermaster Shoemaker; motion:
we're made that we all adjourn aad go to Gin.
| cinnati. This was voted down. Motions were
mace at various times to take drink, but
| these were carried every pop almost unaul'
mously, your correspondent being the on y
one who had the moral courage to vote IN
| the negative. Now, Miles is from Columbus,
and q jolly good fellow, and when the timt
came to retire he proffered me his bed, pro.
| viGed would write good notice Of him IL
thS Press: this ! promised and accepted hIs
hospitality, the party dispersed, aud Nile:
was soon in the arms of Morpheus he had
fallen asleep making an eloquent appeal tt
the chairman.
had just got into nice doze when wa;
aroused by the sound of voice; "Gen-l.
men, you're all my freDs, every one of you
but, gennelmen, | invite you all freely tc
my sardnes; and you especially, Ned Shoe,
maker; an you e-spe-cilly, Andy Hall; and
| all of you. The country is a momentouS
| question" Here l ventured to inquire o
Miles as to whom he was addressing his re
marks. "Why, to my friends" replied he
isn't that Ned Shoemaker, there" point
| ing to barrel, upon the top of which stooC
my hat; "and are not those my own sub5tan
tial com DanioDs, eh?" motioning toward nu
merous cheese boxes, herring kegs, &c., tha
were strewn around
He was much astonished when | assuret
him they had all dispersed quietly to thei
viTtuoUs couehes half an hour previous
---Oetober 8-Ghe- boys have returned frol
their thirty hours tramp of some fifty Q
sixty miles; penetrated into where a fSt
days since the enemy were located. Agai
have they, the 'Secesh," PACKED up, bag an
baggage, and destroyed large quaptities {
their guns and wagons, and "seceded." Tn
roads are all in terrible copdition, an
almost impossible. There is bat little 'dout
they have retired for the winter. y
1t is generally supposed that the Sixt
Ohio will have winter quarters in this dan
nable hole of Virginia. Already the boy
| all froVn nj,