Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-08-06
From the i4th Battery.
Jackson, TExx., July lot.

ANASoN LFN-f 10Y
Dcqr LRroAiclc.-After a longer interval
of silence than is usual | feel the spirit
moving me to again hold converse with
your readers, The Occasion Of my silence
may be found in the fact that there has
no been any thing of a string nature TO
communicate since my. last.
Our Battery entered this place June
10th, coming in at one side OF the town as
a forlorn hope of Secesh Cavalry went out
on i double quick q, the ntl,-r. But the
day before they were hus-tiHg loudly Of
the destruction Of life they would occasion
if they could only find the ID Lincoln
t%Ites.. For a LiIne The citizens vaYord 4
good deal over oiir temerity aud have set
several Times IL the eventful DAYS on
which B~eturegard's forces would drive us
out. Al predictions having failed thus
far If Is ch.rit.bly presumed that they
have postponed this entertaining work on
account oi the weather. Col. Marsh the
commandment Of this post. mhen first ia
ken seized a large amount of sugar, sev-
ersl hundred stand of small arms and
other stores. 1t is greatly TO be regretted
that these energetic steps ave since Civ
EN- way to the rose-water policy 80 much
in vague, but which recent reverses bid
fair to squelch at once utterly and for
ever.
This place is without doubt one of the
most handsome and prettily laid out
towns in the whole South. 1t is the
most so of any town l have ever seen on
slave-soil. The dwellings and door yards
exhibit a great deal of taste and culture.
The citizens are deeply tinctured with Sc
cession and refuse to hold communication
with us. In walking past a palatial resi-
denee a couple of weeks ago a lady or the
walk, conversing with a lady in the gar
den, sneered on my approach, while the
aforesaid lady in the garden turned her
back upon me. As ] came in front of the
house two good looking secession dam
sells whose beauty had attracted my adj
miring g~lances, arose with pompous dig
nifty and intercepted my view by closing
the door. A few days ago on a second
walk past the premises l saw the lordly
progenitor of these fair Secesh being
marched forth under gaurd of two Union
soldiers to take the cars for the North.
The fair rebels gave vent to their feel
ings in some rather sonorous wailing. l
smiled in as comforting a manner as pos
sibly but 1t seemed TO be without avail,
yea, verify.
Of the ladies l may say briefly that !
have never seen such a universally of
slender delicate females. They are wasp
like both in waist aud temperament.
1t is said that a rebel Regiment was re-
cruited in this vicinity to fight at Shiloh,
which in conjunction with the Mississippi
Tigers stormed our Battery. A member
of it now here who lost an arm, by our
fire and had his wound dressed while lean
ing upon one OF -four Pieces, is positive that
the rebel loss by u fire was at least one
hundred and fifty, while a comrade places
it at two hundred. Whatever it may
have been, it is very certain that one-half
of that Regiment have never returned
from the wasting conflict of Shiloh
They state that the rebel forces marched
upon us in eight parallel lines thus ac-
counting for our destructive fire, and
why it was our forces drifted SO helpless
ly before the great weight of their imbru-
ted, drunken, oyerpowering masses. The
unnatural tension produced by powder
and whiskey could not avail in
a second days conflict, and they soon
lost ground till they were beaten off the
field
Could we have had proper support en-
aiding us to hold our position, we could
have speedily broken the rebel centre
and thus early redeemed that days disas-
tiers, if indeed it had not wholly turned
the tide of battle.
The mortality in our Battery, has been
fearful. Fully thirty have been eonsign-
ed to their long home, since Feb. LIST, up
to which time We had not lost u man
Thus in five months service in the field
we have lost one-ffth of our number by
DEATH while sickness and wounds have
deprived US of the services of fully fifty
more, leaving the effective force of our
original Battery but a little over sixty
About twenty of those absent will doubt
less report here for duty the coming week.
For the purpose of reference, those hav-
ing friends or otherwise interested in our
Battery, l herewith append a