Randolph County journal., 1861-10-10
From the Indiana Daily Journal.
CHEAT MOUNTAIN ITEMS.


CHEAT MOUNTAIN ITEMS.
In the absence of our usual let
ter from Cheat Mountain, we clip
the following interesting items
from the correspondence of the
Cincinnati Commercial:
GENERAL REYNOLDS AND STAFF.
Brig. General j. ]. Reynolds,
commanding this Brigade, is from
Lafayette, Ind, West Pointer,
and a very efficient and skilIful
officer. His staff consists in part
of Capt. Isaiah d. Mcdonald, of
Columbia City, Ind; Ad'jt Gen.
S Rose, of Lafayette, Ind; Capt.
Jno. Levering, Lafayette, Brig
ade Quartermaster; Capt. VIM.
c.. Harrington, Lafayette, Brig
ade Commlssary; DIR. Thompson,
indianapolis, Surgeon, and Capt.
Will Anderson. The gentlemen
comprising the staff, like the Brig.
General, are teetotalers,-some-
thing, | opine, cannot be said of
any other command. The Gen
eral is ever vigilant. Only yes
terday, he went the grand rounds
outside the picketS, making a re-
connoisance within mile and a
half of the enemy.
CONDITION OF OUR MEN.
Our friends at home have no
idea of the condition of the Ohio
and Indiana boys In this benighted
region. state by personal inves-
tigation when | say there is not a
Regiment in this command that
can muster over twenty five pair
of pantaloons, twenty shirts, or
thirty blankets. A portion of the
troops have just received overcoats
which will afford slight relief
All the men are without socks,
and many barefooted. And yet,
strange to relate, there is no COM
plant. They would rather 60
out and scout the enemy in the
pelting storm any time than par.
take of ratlons and soldiers quar-
ters. | have seen men who have
laid out in the laurel six or eight
days at a stretch, bagging secesh,
and subsisting on blackberries and
fox grapes. Three of the Indiana
boys belonging to Kimball's l4th
Indiana, recently surrounded and
captured a party of nine OF the
enemy in a shanty on the noun
talns, who, after surendering, had
the impotence to inquire if all
our men were so valorous. Our
boys removed the locks from their
guns, and then permitted them TO
depart in peace, not being able to
take the wounded prisoners into
our camp. General Jackson, of
Virginia, and ex-member of Con-
gress Albert Rust, of Arkansas,
are in command of a portion of
the rebels in this vicinity.
We suspect that Reynolds will
have TO initiate Wellington, and
hang a quartermaster or two, be-
,ore any sort of regard will be
paid to the wants of our gallant
men. Clothing was sent to the
Indiana men weeks ago, and mes
sengers sent to trace 1t up when it
failed to arrive In due season, but
the clothing has not got to camp
yet, and the Lord only knows
where it is. Ii Major Slemmer
is in fault, and he may be, for he
isin charge Of the Quartermaster's
Department in Western Virginia,
he had better 90 back to Fort
Pickens.
The BOYS WANT TO go IN
liz company with Coils. Kim
ball and Wagner this morning,
we visited the l4th and 10Th Ind.
Regiments, and notwithstanding
the boys we're out IN the pelting
storm all day and night, and
wringing wet and miserably clad,
when asked. How did you fare
last night, boys?' the universal
reply was, first rate,' pretty well'
cant complain As We passed
along the boys frequently inquired
Colonel, when are you going to
let us bag the Arkansaw and
Tennesseeans?' Colonel, our
boys are freezing to go in.' #