Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-11-08
Army Corresponelenoo.

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We ss psthassd, By BE- tihaa,p q Sc.
wife, to make the following extracts nom q lst-
ter written BY Lieut. 7. wilcox, now h Kens.
lucky with ool Gibson: u oifHNI
oA,r NxvrS, Hardin Co., Ky, Oct. i0 'ei.---
Waiea Camp Muldraugh just aftsr ahs sun
had got above the tree4tops on the morning ~
October i0tb, and casnpeA here about 3 o'cioek,
p. m. We were fortunate enough to rscsirecur.
tents in good time, but two companies In tho 4sth
and some entire regimcntsdid not Rettheifs On
the morning Of Che Iltb, during which time
there was considerable rain. ourcompany has
lain out some 10 or Knights, either on picketcr
in camp, without tents and never experienced.
anything worse than heavy dew. We ore
still in this mammoth Hardin county, about one
or two miles from the Railroad bridge crossing
Noln creek, which was destroyed by the trait
ors the next morning after we marched into
Elzabethtown. The bridge is now repaired
and cars run TO this point. Regiments have
poured in here ever since our arrival The 18th
Ohio came in yesterday and another regiment
this morning. Our march from MuldrauRh
here--a distance of 10 miles---was through -
better farming country than 1 had before seen
in Kentucky. We are camped on a large and
good farm, owned by good union man, whose
sir-Dame h sNevin--hence the name Of our camp.
His farm cost him $40 an acre; his out-build-
ings, Qike those on all other farms which L
have seen in Kentucky,) are mere nothing, but
he has very large brick house which IL now
the head quarters Of our brigade. Gen. Raus-
sau is sick at present and Col. Gibson is in COM
mand. had business at head quarters to-day,
and found a stream Of officers going in and out
of Gibson's division of the house, and after my
eye had made some observations of the huckel-
berry appearance of the young family stock,I
felt very much like congratulating the Colonel
upon the amicable co-occupation, but he was
too busy. He makes one of the most familiar
of Colonels, but has not done much by way Of
command-Col Blackman having done most Of
the drilling. think Col. Gibson would make
good Commandant Of Post. We shall un-
doubtedly stay here some time, but the cool
nights suggest to my mind the propriety of an
unhesitating forward movement.
John Hamilton writes to Charley Stull that,
he IJohn1 read long letter from me in which
1 said ours and another company were on pick
ct duty and lived three days on one days ra--
TONS Now either John or myself ought to be
sent TO the Lunatic Asylum. Iwish you would
call him in and read to him again what did
write.
Thus far we have seen one school house in
Kentucky There is an old fashioned brick
church within ten rods of my quarters, in which
Baptist minister four weeks since, during a
discourse, declared that the Federal troops could
nevsr cross Muldraugh Hill. But alas for hu-
man prophecy and ministerial wisdom; we are
now using said church for hospital, the pulpit
of which is fitted up for the Doctors Office. Its
issues, through mistake, may poison the body,
but will no longer poison the mind Just here
let me say we are converting more men to I'm
ionism than all the ministers in both States are
to christianity. But some of ours, like theirs,
are none the more genuine for having taken the
oath or joining the church. l talked with
Kentuckian yesterday, (who, like the citizens
generally was dressed in snuff-colored ieans.l
asked him if he was native of Kentucky; he
thought he should be so considered, having left
Fauquier county, Va, when only four years
old, and enjoyed the blessings of the Union in
Kentucky for the last seventy years. He said
some Union men had been robed and driven off;
he had only been told that his time would soon
come if he did not fall in with Buckner. His
old lady begged him to flee, but he determined
to defend his fireside or die where he had lived
What would have been the fate of him and 9TH
ers he could not say had not the Union troops
of Ohio come TO their aid. Said he, Syou came
into Elizabethtown on Sunday, and just at day
light on Monday morning our Railroad bridge
was destroyed, and such running as he saw was
hard to beat but pleasant for him to look upon.
Our boys are usually well except James Ragan,
VIM. Whitaker and Moses Rodgers The two
latter were sent from Muldraugh to Louisville
with the measels but were doing well. There
are still some cases in the Regiment
hear that madam rumor has put US through
skirmish, killed Joseph Stocking and some
one else, and taken me prisoner. Now let me
say if ever am taken prisoner, there viii be
some peculiar circumstances in the case BY
looking into the future, do not see myself
prisoner II another rumor has me killed, await
its confirmation. AS for "Jo," as the boys call
him, expect to bring him back TO be the future
husband of some Townsend girl as a reward for
his having FIRST signed my Reserve Militia Roll
and never having fiinched since
1t is now Sunday evening, and we have had
a crowd of citizens in and about camp. dis
course was delivered by our Chaplain, Mr..
Bush, followed by Col. Gibson in remarks which
were Gibson all over.
TIMOTHY WILCOX.
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