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CAMP CALVERT. LONDON, KY
November 10.
Again we are all in a blaze in the Tennessee
camp, lighted by news from home; every heart
is on fire, and burns for vengeance on the hell
born horde of SecesSionists. Earnestly, anxious
ly and impaiently the question is asked by old
gray haired men and stripping, beardless boys,
and by strong men in the full vigor of life, Are
we to stay here always-must we forever stay
and guard Kentucky; will we never be allowed
TO 60 back TO East Tennessee, to our homes, and
our destitute, unprotected families - God grant
that the day may not be far distant. for we are
all tired and weary and sick Of the everlasting
cry that we are not ready, wait a little longer
Yes, watch and pray, and wait, to what purpose
For the Secession soldiers 10 devastate our fields,
slaughter our live stOck-that ought now to be
feeding a Union army-buTn our houses. In
suit our wives and daughters, aud ruin them
forever-and all time3 What. wait for disci
pine wait to be drilled with that eternal, infer
nal left, that has been cried until every old breed
sow in Kentucky is gruntiug left!
How can it ever be expected that men, smart
ing under every insult and injury that can be
heaped upon them, can quietly submit and learn
to be disciplined and drilled Wait! Why
Just because some one, or two. or three men, no
better than many other men, who happen to
have brigsdier-general hitched 70 their names,
and consequently get big pay, declare that we
have not the necessary equIpage, or means Of
transportation or perhaps some ittle brooks on
the roads are sWelled By the recent rains. Some
Of these men are getting more money now, as
generals, than they ever saw before, and they are
afraid lest this war be ended too soon, and the
stream that is now flowing SO pleHleously into
tHeir pockets viii be cut Oh. This is altogether
go, r,,.,L. Of "a v.lfEfsfavf1 or rl.fruaf1rfs rrar.
If it is not for their especial benefit, il smells
very strong that way, when we have right under
our Nose the immense s~WIndnng beef sad mule
contracts given to the big bs.lied blue grass
aristOcracy of Kentucky, who have sent no
volunteers to hght out the battle for the Union.
Why do we wait for these wise and august brig
heterogeneous to get everything fixed 10 their
notion, and then fight a battle according to mill
tary tactics The thing is absurd, more in such
a country as this, or the mountainous country OF
East Tennessee, where an army Of ten thousand
men could not be so stationed as to be all in
sight Of each other, it is utterly impracticable.
How have the Tennesseeans been treated
since their exodus from their native State in the
month of August, 70 the hospitabie O. State of
Kentucky What has become Of 100000 sp-
propriated by Congress for the beu5ht Of East
Tennessee Where are the arms purchased by
the government aud sent to Kentucky % arm
East Tennesseeans ? Let those ponder well
who know, and remember that there is g great
reckoning day. when they viii be arraigued be-
fore a Judge with whora money and political IN
hueuce viii not avail. In August, the Teunes-
seeaus came to BaTbOUrsville and were mustered
into service by Samuel z. Nelson, then Lieut..
Nelson, Of the navy, now acting bTigsdler-gen-
eral, who was appointed by the President to
muster into service and take charge Of them.
A. 4H.4 +rr,s Fbara ,-o~, h,waa-alr,ra+ Nth
out number-Of arms at Cincinnati, addressed
to the Tenuesseeans to use the expression Of a
newspaper reporter | talked with today, the
depot was crowded with them, and among them
were some 1909 o. 1900 Sharpe rifles. These
arms were forwarded through the e~xertions Of
} Andy johnson and Horace Maynard, bus not
with them alone rests the praise. VIM. B. Car
ter, who is well known IN many Of the northern
cities for his untiring efforts to enlist the sympa
thies of the masses with his native Tennessee
ans, was equally untiring in trying TO wake uI
the taTdy government 10 a sense OF the import
ance Of arming East Tennesseeans and hi:
brother, James B. Garter, now colonel Of tb,
I'd regiment. procured the ShaTpl rifles, which
were sent on through bis own influence, ant
paid partly for ihelh out of his own pocket.
SaHldel Carter went to Gen, Nelson, theI
commanding and trying to form an eucamp
ment at Dick RObiusOn's, to see about the arms
Gen. Nelson gave his word % him that the arm
| should be forwarded to the Tennesseeans al Bar
louisville, and Garter returned TO that place
The arms were forwarded, accordingly, from
Cincinnati to Gen. Nelson, who, when he ha.
taken them into his possession, refused to sen.
any of them away from the camp, and tie Ten
uesseeans were reluctantly compelled to march
OF get to Nelson's headquarters the best wa.
they could, at what afterwards became not0riOu
as Camp Dick Robinson" Notorious, indeed
and alas a most memorable place TO Us. Il wa:
AS it were, a charnel rouse for cur men, an
many a brave leart that might have killed -
cessiongsts during tho war, aud enjoyed years {
comfort at home after the war, had it RENAME
in its native hills, now hes buried ia tine dirt
with no slab OF board to mark the spot-killet
by the accuTsed malaria at Dick RobiusOn's
And how did Gen. Nelson fulfill his promise q
giving arms to our men, when they came to hi
very door to get them Did he extend the han
of af~fectionate welcome to them No. He cast.
look Of whitening pity upon that crowd Of poo
weary, ragged, homeless axiles; and "
among those ragged, homeless exiles wer
preachers Of the gospel, county clerks, judges
members Of the Legislature, and members Z
Congress, and material enough among those VIII
held no Office out OF which two hundred bTigl
der generals could have been made with NOR
, sense and brains than Nelson lad. The arm
government purchased sad forwarded expressl
!, for Tenge4seeans they never got. The sharp
ri.ies, bought through the e~xertiOns Of Col Cal
? ter, were given to Col. W0OlfOTd's cavalry, an
out of the twelve hundred u them carried b
these Kentuckians. not one Of them was eY'
: harmed " being shot off at q Secesslouist INT
= the Wildcat tight, and nOteyen then would thel
/, rifles have smelt powder if it had not been Il
: the Indianians, for WOolfoTd's men started
retreat, bU. the SD Tigers fighting adjutal
rather hsmmed themin, and old kentuck had
r face the music. What would old Daniel Boon
5 say if he knew what unworthy representative,
r he had left behind him. 1t strikes me that
any man rest uneasy in his grave, Daniel BOoI
must and If there is any such thing as spin
: ever returning to this wicked world, some of Il
blue grass aristoeracy will awake fro n uneas
slum5ers to see old Daniel perched on their be,
= posts, looking down upon them in silent col
tempt. One word for NelsOn-BrigadieT Cen
raj Nelson-before | cave him aud if he ev,
sees it, he can put it in - pipe and smoke !
t that the day he sets placed among IenneSst
troonz IN a battle, will be a dark day for him.
e An the other arms sent for our bepeRt vanishe
somewhere, and that somewhere is very strongl
! suspected to be among the Kentucky volunteer
= At any rae here is the bare fact, and facts al
J hard things to climb over in an argument, tn;
some two hundred men So this day IN the :
East Tennessee regiment, are without ann.
< there are aa guns 70 give them, and We arc no
{ drawing near the Tennessee line, and recruit
are coming in from one 70 forty daily. An
y what guns we have are the old HaTper's Fen
t musket Of IS4Q Can there be no way fixed
J supply us ~plentifully even with these As
t camp equipage, the ID regiment is only PARTIAL
supplied, two or three messes cooking and eabn
out of the same pots and pans, by turns. n
e~antsenz, no tents for surgeons, no hospital tTuu
! for cur sick though, through the kind instr
mentality Of Mrs. Nellie Terry of Cleveland,
sending supplies from the Soldiers Aid Societ
Z in that city, our sick have been rendered con
, Portable.
e Only about half OF our officers are supple
with vail tents, and there are no more ten
here to cover the recruits that are expected
Z arrive every day. And why is 1T Why, sin
ply because all the post quartermasters are He,
: tuckians, and they do not care whether Il
i Teanesseeans have anything or not; they a
too busy feathering their own nests to troub
Z themselves about US, And yet, for all this-6
; all the Sights, injuries and insults heaped upC
; Us, you hear not q murmur from these noble TIE
! nesseeans at al the unnecessary inconvenient
u no one gTumbles. Their only cry is-Let US 9
e home They were tolled here last August wi
the promise of getting arms and going baC
, home. With this object still in view, they we
sworn in for three years. Then they were p
under some man with br-igadier-general tack
to his name, who knew nothing about East Tt
nessee, and cared less-aRd here we are.
Give US erm3 giveUs ammunition and the
d Is Eot a Tennesseean in this camp who is II
d ready and willing and anxious 20 &c back. y
here we sit idle, and are set on IRE nearly eve