Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-04-04

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From the 18th Regiment
CUxBEELAxD FORD, Tenn,
March %, 1862.

From the 18th Regiment
CrxBEELAxD FoRD, Tenn,
March %, 1862.
We have fasf returned from Cumberland
Gan. the roads exeerabIy bad. being knee-deep
with mud where they are not AL rock and
stones, aud having been gone three days we
are eli very tired. Our whole faSce, consist
ing OF - regiments, with Mondays Cavai-
ry and Wetmore's Battery. started on recon-
noisance 10 the Gap on Friday morning. the
distance by the route we took about fifteen
miles; got 10 within mile and half or two
miles from their forts about dark. Oar pick
els drove in theirs Immediately. We then lad
down on the mountain TO rest. slept batier
that night than had for moath.PIst. Kat
urday morning at any light the picket firing
commenced The Tennessee boys conld hard
Iy reach them; but when our boys went OVER
they soon drove them into their works. They
commenced throwing shells at US al O'Clock
and iar,, steady Al it. One few right over the
l,.q,d of oar Colonel and cut of qnite large
tree just before him. lie thought that rather
c,ose. Some OF their grape passed between
Col. Birds arm and body, touching tie skin
on the body; aud Lieut. Smith, Of Wayne CO..
got a bal through his coat at tha waist gra-
zing the skin. This is all ihe harm they did
US. Oar artillery opened fire at noon. and a
Lively time there was till near night The reh-
els ceased firing about O'Clock p. M, Our side
al O'Clock One Of the rebel halls cut of Il
pine tree about twenty inches through The
she'll made qnitc wlisiIing through ibc air,
but we were all very cool. IG the afternoon
thev goi reiniorcelnrnts and The General con-
c.udd his force was not sufficient to take their
formidable works: 50 this morning we came
back 10 camp. They are iH a very strong po-
81 i;ion. on a mountain about 2090 feet high;
have il covered with oFificafions and holes
known as rile-rils from which the soldiers fire
and are measurably shiesded from DANGER they
have also felled the surrounding timber which
is left living around in every direction and dug
bitches 10 impede our progress. We were en-
a mountain about half MS high. and had a fine
view Of them Our mcn threw a shell into
their upper fort. 1t weuld have done you
good 10 see them scatter. We also knocked
one OF their cannon over the second round and
heard no further reports from it. They have
some very large guns. We brought one OF
tucll o+ liOOiio ouCii atoilS- tiS iSH ~ NtAOui
exploded Col ntcOurcy says their position
is a stronger on@ than S .bastopal was The
rebels say they had only 80 killed, but some
sly lI6; one fellow that escaped said they
buried I6 in one grave. -Four companies
US were up th. re on the lIth inst and drove
in sky Of their cavalry. II was fine cleal
DAY, and We saw for the frst tim the rebe
flag aoatins from the top of the mountain
We had hne view and from where We s:oat
could see them digging like good fellows. VI
tried to draw them out, but did not succeed
Friday night, 21st, ii showed all night, mel:
ing as it fell except Oh the high mountains
and continued most of Saturday and all da.
| Sunday.
Monday, gath '1'is suawing fast and ha
been all day. This, afternoon the long rol
beat. The wo-d was Rebel Cavalry are com
ing" We were all soon in ralk, AMI a. the
road we started with hearty good will b.
they did not come far; if they had come with
in range lot of them would have sad here
We have - pieces Of artillery planted il
our braast-Work', looking in different direc
tions. The rebels have some sixteen or TWEEN
/ iy. This has been in all a very rough mont
here, but the peach trees are nov in bIoom.-
| There will not be much IN the way of crop
raised here this season, as all is ruin and desc
lation, fences all gone, houses and barns burn
or pulled down, and everything destroyed tina
/ could be. 7 ours, &c. 4