Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-08
For the Daily State Sentinel.
Letter from the SEVENTEEN.
CAMP Ben. HARRIsoN,l
Bowling Green, KY, Aug. 81 {


Sunday in this camp is day of rest to us and
the boys try to improve it by writing letters home
We are relieved from company and battalion
drill, which is awful tight on the boys these warm
days.
We turned our flannel undergarments this
morning and attended divine service and were
highly edited with the discourse. The doxolo-
gy was not sung in the same style exactly that
our hymn books called for; it three cheers
and tiger which rather astonished our worthy
Chaplain himself, thinking they has got hold of
the wrong book.
We have not yet, from what l can hear from
old soldiers, seen the beauty of the brick work in
soldier business for are comfortably situated
and have plenty to eat of all the delicaces of the
season. The guard lines are crowded from morn
ing till night with the saddle colored part of the
community selling everything in the eating line
peach cobblers, chicken pies, milk &C., and they
find good market, for the boys are all flush and
can't stand the pressure on sheet iron biscuit and
fat bacon.
ADJUSTMENTS are plenty in camp in the evening
after diess parade. In one part of the camp you
will see a minstrel band, another burlesque
dress parade, in another perhaps the troubadore
armed fiddler holding forth Now and
then fight takes place, but not often. 1t is i'm
possible for the boys to get sick; they have
enough fun TO drive away The spleen and regu-
late the circulation, and if they do get a little
blue around the mouth they get a pass, 90 to
town and set around undertaker's shop for an
hour or so and come back all right.
We have been for the last week blessed with
the company of several Indianapolis ladies
Mrs. Col Harrison, Mrs Major Vance, Mrs.
VIM. Wallace, Miss Cathcart, Miss Bette Bates,
Miss Vance, and also several gentlemen from
home could and would mention, but they are in
the shade when lady visitors are here They
called for all the mending the boys had to do it
was not long until the Captains quarters were
half full of all sorts of garments-some wanted
buttons sewed on, Others pockets put in, and old
sewing machine rips closed. They took the con-
tract, which thought a heavy one, fixed all
the things up and took thanks for pay, which
the boys heartily gave.
We have Lieutenant in the regiment some
thing on the Falstaff style. He is very fond of
and gallant to the ladies'; also loves good living.
He was out foraglng for milk and butter yester-
day We stopped at a country house where they
had those things, but strong secesh; the
Lieutenant, gay Samson that he is, thought of
course that his winning way would procure them
from the woman of the house; we walked in;
he asked her very politely if she would sell him
some butter. Thinking she did not look very
amiable, backed. She opened or him heavy,
solid shot and she'll The last | saw of him he
was bowling himself out, hat in hand: all he
could say was, Il give it up, madam" He says
that he has seen threshing machines, eight day
clocks, and fast horses. but she could beat them
all. He is not very well to-day
One of the boys was nsng fine tooth comb
this morning rather lively. COL Burgess (ong
may be wave,) asked him what he did with the
inhabitants when he caught them. He answered
that he "paroled them and LET them 60" | ex-
pect that Others have done the same thing.
see great many fne-tooth combs in use.
The health of the 10Th is very good consider
ing the water that have to drink. 1t is not
quite Blue Lick although the boys say so-the
smell is there but not the taste.
We have been expecting to move for some
days. There is very nconvenient and dan
gerous neighbor below us-Morgan. They want
us to get acquanted-we do not care about an
introduction so sOon-if forced we will give him
the best we have got in the house. The boys
are not troubled in the least about him coming
here. They are skylarking all day and sleep as
sound as If they were in their old camp at In
dianapolis, and when called up at night by the
long roll (Which we have been several times
they form line of battle as cool and steady as
if they were on dress parade. 1t is the general
impression about here that the 10th will do to set
up with. BLAZE.