The Evansville daily journal., 1862-01-17
REGULATIONS FOR 1862.
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE
CAMP SHANKIIN, Jan. 18th,

hr. EditoT:-For some time it has been
known that we were in a Brigade, and that
the 42d ands ,43d Indiana Col Burbridges
and Col. Hawkins of Kentucky are the
regiments which form the brigade, but un-
til very recently it has not been known who
commanded the brigade as General. 1t is
now settled that by seniority, Colonel
Jones of the AID is the commander of the
Brigade, and of course will in a short time
be made General, and a more fitting seIec-
ton, in my humble judgment, could not
have been made. He is the right man in
the right place.
learn that Col. Steele of the 43i has
resigned, hut why it was, 1 cannot tell.
Whether be had to get some one to help
him let the hog CO." or whether he just
dropped the command like the fello did
The piece of hot iron, without telling, de :
ponent saith not but at all events, he,
am informed, has resigned the command f
his regiment
May hap the "gude folks at home would
like to know exactly what we of the 42d
are doing. We are getting ready to fight
and whip the rebels upon scientific princi-
pies, and we think we are succeeding.
In weather which will admit of it, we
drill at least five hours a day, and at night,
our officers and non-commissioned officers
are required to recite in Hardees Tactics
one hour. This is rule adopted by our
Lieut.. Colonel, Chas. Denby, from the be-
ginning, and be has kept it up wherever we
have pitched our tents.
At Henderson the elite pronounced our
officers unsocial, | am told but it is not
true. l think them as nobIe-hearted and
genial companions as | ever knew. We
come soldering" and like the fellow
who went 'fcatting' and would have no
kind of fish but cat, so our officers say
about service. Soldering Is soldering and
if it be not we'll followed, | imagine that
"Uacle Sam win get most sublimely swiud-
led
couple of "contrabands" camo into our
camp from near Bowling Green since
wrote you last They say that Buckner is
pressing all Union mems negroes into the
service of the Southern "Contheveracy,"
and that as A. Ward says, the "sweet cuss'
is doing all the mischief he can regardless
ofthe rights of the citizens thereabouts. l be-
heve the "niggers" tell the truth
We hear great many reports about reb-
els on the " other side of Jordon," but our
scouts are kept constantly on the alert, and
are ever ready to pay due respect to all such
distinguished individuals. But they do not
often turn up, so Cur scouts generally get
their pains for their trouble. One of these
days we will catch the rebels mapping, then
we will row them down Green river, sure.
H,., e. T. T.
you know he caught a grape vine and
swung across deep ravine, the conseq
of which was, that the savages lost the
track so | think the rebels do when we
get after them aud they, having some con-
scientious forebodings that theirs will be
swinging destiny, are practicing while yet
they may, SO that they will get well used to
it. have been looking for the grape vine
on which Daniel swung, but have not yet
discovered it, If do, (and it may be like
ly,) | will send you piece.
A friend Of mine said to me, the other
day, @. r. Juniper, these Internal Yankees
are doing more TO protract this war than all |
the world beside How so ?" said ]. |
Why" he answered, "by the manufacture |
ing of red tape" The rascals," he con-
tinued, "are amassing huge fortunes by the
mandatory of this single article. 1t has
been so extensively used in the army on the |
Potomac that Western officer cannot get |
more than yard every three months"
So soon as we move from this camp and
if we pitch our tents where there are lots of I
pretty ladies, and an abundance of crinoline,
shall insist on calling the camp, Camp t
Wiggins,' or "Camp McTntire"-T don't
know wbieh-yet-.old adage-" the longest
pole knocks the percimmons."
An old county reader" informs nae that
in the good old days of yore," the Justices
of the Peace had novel ideas about the - con-
STRUNG of law. A newly elected one vis-
tied neighboring town in a neighboring
county. Our Esquire" was not long in
town until fight occurred, and he forth
with issued a summons for the parties to
appear before his " august" parsonage, but
as soon as the said pugilists bad made their
appearance, the court was informed that
his jurisdiction did not extend beyond the
limits of his own county. The old fellow
returned home ia deep thought. He had
taken an oath to support the constitution of
the State Of Kentucky, and of the United
States, consequently be argued that his
jurisdiction would extend all over the State.
The next day be was called on to unite in
the holy bands OF wedlock, pair of "mu-
tual admirers, of masculine and feminine
gender, which he did with the dignity of
a sedate Judge, pronouncing the "twain one
flesh" so long as they remained in the coun-
ty, that as his jurisdiction did not extend
beyond the county, the contract would only
be binding so long as they remained within
its limits.
An old citizen tells me that some years
ago, there came TO little town over near
the Tennessee line, when the old militia law
was in force, box of goods in which was
an eastern newspaper. The county read
err was called up, and read OF terrible