Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-09-10
From Burrows Battery.

JACKSON, Tenn, Aug. ..
Dedr ChroHsc!e: this, the anniversa,
~ OF our departure from Warren, again
feel the spirit that says Write" moving
me 10 communicate with your readers.
We have now completed the first year
of our enlistment. In that short space
/ how many events have been crowded
/ how many changes occurred, Moved to
enter the ranks from 4 conviction of duty
under the stimulus pervading the country
/ By the disastrous reverse Of Bulls Run, we
entered the service at 4 most unpropitious
hour. Our discomfted, dispirited army
/ lay beleagured at Washington-the tri-
umphs of its three months campaign
neutralized or lost, with the enemies OF
the cause blatant and jubilant and a gen.
eral gloom resting like cloud upon the
public mind, scarce a ray of light illumin-
ated the future. Trust in heaven and the
justice of the cause, was alone left 10
nerve the hearts and strengthen the arms
of the patriot hosts who swarmed TO their
country's aid in its hour of peril, and it
was enough. Devotion 10 duty has ever
found its most glorious examples in self
sacrifice for the rights of man, and has
never yet went unrewsrded.
With commingled feelings of gratitude
and pride do ! revert 10 the action of old
Trumbull III that crisis. Though in the
midst OF harvest, the busiest season of the
sturdy yeomanry who make the armies of
every land, her sons came from the work
shop and the field, and wherever they
have taken part in the conflicts of the war
triumph has marked the advance of their
standards Rich Mountain atteSts the
valor of Co. c. Cross Lanes, Winchester
and Culpepper reflect their glories upon
her pioneer company in the gallant
though decimated Seventh Ohio. Cheat
Mountain and the Gauley recall the
dreary campaign of Co. F, while the
deadly contest of Shiloh crowned Com
panies A of the 4Ist, c and of the 10th,
F of the 9th, and G of the Goth with
the laurels OF victory.
Trumbull may well feel proud OF her
representation III the ranks. OF her two
Cavalry companies in The 2d Ohio. and
her representative in the l4th Ohio Bat
terry. my ignorance of the former i'm their
far-oif Kansas campaign, and my con-
nection with the latter forbid me to
speak further than 10 say they have been
second 10 none in the discharge of their
duty.
= crisis Is again upon us. Guerrillas
swarm in every border state from the At
iantic to Kansas, moving on in their un-
checked, murderous raids with as little
compunction as the vandal hordes of
Alaric. while the magnifcently appointed
army on the James, lies through weari-
some weeks like 4 strong. yet tired SWIM
mer, bfeasting the waves whose overflow
threatens to whelm the republic in ruin.
The cause is again imperilled, and again
our country calls for help. Shall that cry
90 unheeded, or meet with the glorious
response of one year ago: ] feel sure
that old Trumbull will not prove recreant.
She cannot, she will not prove other than
true to her past record. Glorious 10 con-
template are the memories of her past;
if she but does her duty now still green
er laurels await her participation in fu-
ture.
On this retrospect | must not iinger,
but proceed TO speak of the Battery. CON
cerning whom, no doubt more interest is
felt than in any review of the past. We
have been at this point since the Sth of
june. Nothing occurred to break the
mOnotony of camp life till the 2Sth,
when we received orders at dusk TO pre-
pare for marching at moments notice,
and had the horses in harness all night.
On the 30th we had the same orders and
the horses were kept in harness forty
eight hours in the expectation of an at
tack by a superior force of rebel cavalry
who had torn up the railroad track both
on the north and the south of this place. |
Gen. Logan threatened tC burn the town
,Ttzclya1 Da9NOcf,,,r S,,f f,,,o,.I
the place was almost defenceless, several |
regiments having been sent TO Cairo and |
Birds Point. Their forces were soon sup
piled by others from Corinth, and depen- |
lence ON Tennessee loyalty viii not gull |
any more. OF the cCmplicity of the citi- |
Lens with the expected raid there is but |
little doubt, notwithstanding they have |
Ill sworn to the oath of allegiance.
The general health of the Battery was |
never better This location being proba-
bly, rs healthy one as could have been |
elected. The length of time we will |
stay cannot be even conjectured, but in !
Ill probability we will remain till our
place is supplied by new recruits who can
perform the double work of drill and gar
,ison duty at the same time We will |
then go into the field, but our destina-
lion will depend upon events yet to Oc-
,ur.
After the battle of Pittsburg Landing,
-oIty men of the 18th Ohio Battery,
which was disorganized at that time,
we're assigned TO US, and with the rem
lant of our own Battery, have since form
1 Four-Gun Battery. With this addition
We have but ninety men present for duty.
hear we are to be recruited 10
,ur full number of $50 men, and again
Jecome a Six-Gun Battery--it is said Capt.
Burrows, who has not yet recovered from
lis wound, has recruited twenty-five men
rom Lake County who will leave for this
place August 25th. Would that the re-
might come from Trumbull
OF the interior, private life of officials
n military circles much might be written