Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-07-26

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lowing order was published
General Order-No. 1O.j
CAMP LYON, ST JOSEPH, Mo-, July Is, 81.
Official information having been received
the death, to-day, at this post, of LIST Lieut.
George Strong, of company &, I'd regiment
Iowa volunteers, commissioned officers vii
wear the usual badge ofmourning thirty day
in token of respect for the deceased. 1t be
ing the desire of his friends that the bod,
should be inferred at the place of his late res
idence, Fairfield, Iowa, company f will form
an escort for the removal of the remains from
the hospital to the train Of cars leaving at
O'Clock A. NJ. tomorrow.
By order of
Lieut.. Col. j. NJ. FUTILE, Com'dg
N. P. CHIpMAN, Adjutant.
How strangely sad at the dead Of night tt
hear the mutfled drums sounding like sepul
chral echoes the requiem of a departed com
radc. Gone! Yes, in all its loneliness steals
the thought into the heart till it grows faint
Mr.. Strong was young man of most excel
lent qualities, amiable, kind, and beloved by
all who knew him. He studied law with Sen
ator Wilson, of jefferson county, stood /,
good examination, but was too young to b'
admitted to practice. His loss will be deeply
felt at his home and in the regiment. Poor
fellow, in the delirium of his fever, he dice
Napoleon-like, giving commands to his COM
pany. There have been but two deaths in the
regiment-one from accidental gun shot and
the one above recorded.
The health of the campis pretty good, there
being but 30 in hospital. A member of Capt
Cowles' company, 7. Y. Williams, by accident
shot his left thumb off, The wound did moi
render him unfit for duty. Let our friends
be assured we have every care when sick that
can be furnished.
l talkedwith gentleman to day from Leav-
enworth, who is in the u S. secret service,
and has recently been in Southern Missouri.
He says that Gems. Lyon and Sturgiss have
effected junction of their forces near the
Southern border. If this be true, and have
no reason to doubt it, you may look for some
fighting down in that quarter A part of the
gentleman's mission was to induce Capt. Jen-
nison, of Kansas John Brown notoriety to
join the U. S. forces at some point and coop
crate with them. This Jennison peremptorily
refuses. He thinks he can do more good
fighting on his own hook His name is ter
ror to Missourians everywhere. No one
knows where to look for him or when to OK
pect him. He has been known often to ope-
rate in circle of fifty miles radius in one
night, taking prisoners, coniiscating property
and laying waste the fields of notorious trait
ors. Sometimes he has 800 comrades-at
others two or three am not sure but we
will all have to come this mode of warfare be-
fore rebellion can be thoroughly crushed out
So long as we take prisoners, give them the
best entertainment the camp affords, and apol-
ogise for not being able to do better, and then
discharge them upon taking an oath to be
loyal citizens, with mental reservation as to
every government except the Southern Con-
federacy, we ma expect them to be traitors.
We almost offer an indemnity to treason. 1t
may seem hard to take persons apparently
doing nothing, as prisoners of war, confscate
their property, and swing r. gibbet all in
with rebellion. flay not be civ
ilizcd warfare, but it is meeting most unnat-
ural crime, treason and parricide, with des-
perate expedient, and the only one, ! fear,
which will put quietus to it.
Since the trouble at Monroe there have
been additional forces thrown on the H. & St.
10. R. r., making in all about 5000 troops.
Four thousand of Illinois volunteers, with the
aid of two or three companies of Iowa SOL
tiers, hold the East division, while the I'd and
Sd Iowa regiments protect the rest. Waiv-
ing the articles of war, let me say that 5000
troops well commanded, could have held the
entire road till now without losing bridge.
l will not censure Col. Smith, who led the ex-
petition at Monroe, but would like to know
the military necessity Of taking all his forces
on a scout, leaving the bridges and his bag
gage train, the station house at Monroe and
other points wholly unguarded. Thirty men
could have saved Monroe station house and
the 81 cars burnt, and a less number the Salt
river bridge. The great mistake of his at
tack on Harris seems to have been his pub
fishing all over the country, in advance, what
he intended to do, giving the rebels ample
time to collect their forces. You know how
these guerrillas manage, don't you? Upon
an alarm they leave their work, mount horses,
seize an old shot gun or rife, and in few
hours concentrate as large force as they
want. Whenever dispersed by force or 9TH
erwise, they go quietly back to their work as
innocent of having ever heard of trouble as
they are of honesty and truthfulness. Note
this fact, wherever Iowa troops have been sta
toned, no damage has been done-no trains
stopped or interruptions occurred. Some Of
the Sd regiment are complaining bitterly be-
cause they are kept on the East end in un-
healthy places guarding bridges, while the Il
linois troops are encamped thousand at a
post, where there is no immediate danger
We hope soon to be all straight. The road is
row open for freight and passenger cars. Nc
interruption or change. Trains come in OF
time.
Tell your friends out at Washington that
the arrival in camp yesterday Of Gen. Chip
man, was decidedly happy feature in the ex
perience of company II. He was from Sat
urday working his way out, and had many
amusing adventures en- route, one night stand
ing guard with little squad to protect th'
suffers goods. His son started this morning
for Keokuk, where he expects to find his sis
ter, who stopped there on account of the rail
road difficulties. Both will be in camp Tues
day morning.
We hear rumors of the invasion of low;
by rebel M;ssourians. You must look to you
Co,,tbor,, hordar Na can't SSiSt Won much