Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-09-12
Communicated.
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.

CAMP BEAR CREEK, ALABAMA,
August 26th, 1862.
Editor Telegraph:-Thinking your
readers might be interested in the move
ments and whereabouts of the 63d
I take the liberty of address
ing few lines to them, Cif you consider
them worthy of publicationD through
you paper.
The 63d is in the 1st Brigade, End
Division of the army Of the Mississippi.
Army Corps Commanded by Gen. W,S.
Rosecrans. Division, bY Gen, .; 81.
Stanley, and Brigade, By COT w.
sprague, of the 63d, which is, at present,
under command of Lit. Col. A. s. Has
kin. Our Brigade is composed of the
9th, seth, 4ad, S3d Ohio Regiments.
Emphatically an Ohio Brigade. After
the seige of Corinth, we followed Beau
regard and his army some fifty miles
south. On the 10th of June we re-
turned to within five miles of Corinth,
at which camp we remained until the
Goth inst, when we took up line OF
march eastward to this place, distance
about thirty miles. Our Brigade Head
quarters are at Iuka, small town in
Mississippi, about six miles west of this
camp. Iuka is one of the fashionable
watering places or Summer resorts"
of the South; by the way, it is not very
much visited by the s'chivalry' of the
South, just now. [ presume they fear
contamination by association with the
"vandaI hordes" of the North.
Our Regiment is now guarding a
bridge on the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad across this creek. We are ex-
pecting marching orders every day for
East Tennessee, where large force of
rebels is said to be concentrating. We
begin to think now that the Govern
ment intends making this war burden
to the enemy, for instead of guarding
their property as heretofore, we are ap-
propriating, for our benefit, everything
we find that we need to make us com
Portable. This looks like business. The
idea Of transporting from the North the
entire subsistence for this army, when
there is much in the country, and just
what we need, is worse than folly. The
inha bitants along where our army has
passed heretofore, have been taught by
our actions, that war was blessing;
and so it has been to them, for we have
paid four prices for everything we pro-
cured from them, and that in gold and
silver. Who ever heard before of war
being a blessing to the inhabitants of
the country in which it was carried on?
War is barbarism, and our enemies
must be made to feel it, and to realize
that they are the barbarians for forcing
upon US and themselves, this Of all the
most unholy war. Do not understand
from what [ said above that pilfering or
wanton destruction Of property is al
lowed; not so, but we have regular for
aging parties sent out each day to take
and bring into camp such things as VIC
need.
Our Regiment has suffered very
much during the hot weather from
Typhoid Fever and Diarrhea, and l am
happy to be able to say that the health
lis now rapidly improving. There is
some Union feeling exhibited here, but
the majority part Of the inhabitants are
very bitter towards those protesting
Union sentiments. Two companies are
being recruited here for the Union
army. Last Sunday two men that were
recruiting had been into headquarters to
report, and while on their way home
were murdered. 4 party was Immediately
sent into the ncighborhood in which
they were murdered, to avenge then
deaths, or rather chastise the people.
understand this morning they were fear
fully avenged. On Thursday last we
mad small train of cars burned on this
road, few miles east of Tuscumbia
our forces were SO close on the party
that the attaches of. the train esca aped
On Sunday evening train passed to.
wards Corinth, carrying about three
hundred scontra bands" They seemed te
be in great glee. This war is sure tc
end slavery. can see it in nc other light
but it is no fault of ours. [ do moi
know how we are finally to dispose o.
all the negroes. We can use them just
now to very good advantage, building
Notifications, &c. { hope the "Eist
heads" Of the country will provide some
good place for them.
[ have spun this out much longer
than I intended. I will close, with 3
hearty wish for the speedy success o.
our cause, which is the maintenance o.
the Constitution the Union and the
cold Flag" c. 4. S.
63d 0. Y. I.
| For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
RUTLAND, o., Sept. lst, 1862.
Ed. TclegapA:-Battles are fought