The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-05-01
From the First Regiment.
From Gu: own Correspondent.
CAMP NEAR MT. PLEASANT, I
Tenn. April %, 1862.

From che First Regiment.
From Gu: Own Correspondent.
CAMP NEAR Mt PLEASANT, I
Tenn. April %, 1862.
Friem TeIegra phi:
After Eve or six days of very wet chilly,
disagreeable weather. the sun again comes out
this morning with renewed vigor, and if were
to describe its affects on US in the fewest words
should say that we wilted like cabbage leaves
before its rays
Death, ever busy, has come again in our
midst, and taken from us the third one of our
number. Who will be the next soldier to be
come a martyI2
On the 18TH we had the melancholy dnty TO
perform for the first time, of conveying one of
our comrades to a soldiers grave, The other
IN embers of the company who have died were
away from US in the hospital. Charles Orvis of
Salem, sleeps his last sleep. During the late
marches, he was in unusual good spirits, and
endured the fatigue and exposure better than
a majority ofthe company. But sickness at
tackled him, and within Eve days we were be-
ion. We buried him in the village church yard,
at dead of night, with the pale moon looking
down to add impressiveness to the solemn
scene And when the clods were placed over
his remains, the voleys fred above his grave,
and the ceremonies were completed, we
thought how lonely his relations would be
when they learned Of his loss, and how donbly
lonely he would be away in strange land, with
no loving hand TO plant a flower upon his
grave. o! ye traitors to our country, how can
ye ever atone for the tears Of sorrow, the
signs of grief. the bitter groans Of despair
which have been caused by your wretched am
billions.
Notwithstanding the general feeling of ha'
tired to the north felt by the citizens of this
state, we occasional " find a man who remains
across the other day He said he told them
how this would come out when they talked Of
secession. 1t had been dark period to him,
while rebellion held its sway, but now it was
his turn to rejoice and theirs to mourn. He
hailed the northern soldiers as his friends, and
rejoice to see the strrs and stripes for which his
grandfather fought. And said he, ~ consider
myself already in the Union again, and mean
to stay there too
1t has sometimes been said that she literary
elevation Of a country may be learned BY read
ing the inscriptions on their tomb stones Be-
low are few which We copied verbatim from
q church yard, (if place can be called yard
with out fence) in our sister state of Tennes,
see, which will give an idea Of the intellectual
achievement in THE art:
/ SACRED
To the memory Of James Iscom Craig, who was born
18th March 1892 and died tho day. Son Of John
J. Craig.
g.. D. @. c.
1t appears the engraver was determined that
the credit Of his literary merits should not be
given to another as will be seen by his imprint
the most CONSPICUOUS letters on the stone.
In looking through the grounds we found
inscriptions like the following:
What do now you no not
But you shall know hereafter,
Farewell vain world I'm going home,
my saviour smiles and bids me come,
Bright angels beckon me away
TO sing gods praise in endless days
Youth like the spring will soon be gone
BY Heeting time or ooukern@ DEATH
There sparkling eyes and blooming cheeks
Did wther like tbs blasted rose,
The coffin earth and winding sheaf
lid soon these active limbs inclose.
And when you hear my heart strings break
How sweet nv moments roll
mental palen ess in my cheeks
And glory in my soul
can't give you q better idea ofthe spirit OF
the citizens here toward us than by giving an
anecdofe two:
A little girl, who was puzzled to form an idea
of the beings which she had heard called va
riously Li1co mites, Yankees, murderers abo
tionists &c, came to her mother one day and
nnocently inquired if the yankees had heads
der such training and surrounded by such in
iuences, there should spring up an instructive
hatred to the north and everything pertaining
to it. A soldier stopped at a residence near
Nashville soon after we first came
there, to purchase something to eat. Seeing q
small chattle he jestingy asked him if he would
like to go home with him. Tell tho Yankee ,
says the brazen faced mistress, "that when he
goes back, he will be going too fast to take
any one along with him" So sure was she
as were all the inhabitants, that their army
would soon return, and drive us from their
soil.
1 Last night we furnished quarteas and rations
for a company of los men who have beer
raised at Wsynesburgh, for the list Tenn battal-
lion or Governors Guards. They were only
three days in arising the company At that
rate it will take but short time to raise me
enough to guard this state and let the army go
forward and place the Union party in power in
other states. 1t is cheering evidence of a
return to loyalty, and corroborates the stories
everywhere told us offraud and deception al
the ballot box.
You have always heard as a plea for slavery,
that the slave loves his master, would not leave
him if he could, and all that | have talked
with many but not one have I seen, that did
not seem to know he was wronged by his mas
ter-that he had right to himself One old
darkey, with head as white as the cotton on
which he mad toiled away his life, was asked
why be had such an interest in the liberation
ofthe saves-he was too old to enjoy it. tAh, ,
said he, II have fourteen or fifteen grand
children scattered around, for their sake if
could be a freeman but one hour, I could die
happy" Noble sentiment for a man to utter.
VINO never knew what freedom was, who till
TnPPutlV nOniG NOT l.;
without pass. W
Officers Ofthe Eighteenth
We hear it stated and we have no doubt
the rumor is true, that Captain CARRIE
BoUoK, of the Second Wisconsin, is TO be. or