Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-01-22
From the Nineteenth.
CAMP ON THE CUMBERLAND RIVER,
Near Burksville, Ky, Jan. 10.

four weeks, to an hour, at 2 o'clock, P. NJ
al Marching about 6 miles, we 6irOuaced If
le the woods by the roadside. The evening
was pleasant and mild. and by cOmmnOt
consent our tents were not pitched. ]
think the boys all slept on the grOuRu
le floor, though some talked of going mp
s stairs to spend the night. Wednesday
morning, We got an carly start, and march.
cd I3 miles. Were overtaken by Col.
HOllingsworth, who had been to Ohio and
Michigan, as We halted about | o'clock
He was greeted by hearty, anu heartfelt
d cheers, as he passed to the head of the
Regiment. About the same time it com
t menced raining. and continued to pour
h down in torrents for several hours. We
t halted at about 2 o'clock, and took what
shelter a piece of woods afforded, from the
r pelting rain, but all were more or less wet,
I and the most very wet. Our teams did not
come up till quite late, those of Co A &
t b not coming till long after dark. Ours
; should have been the next one, but when
Others came, and 'Rowdy" did not, we
thought surely something was wrong, and
found he had stuck, or upset, or something
of the kind. a mile or 50 back, Took a
squad of 90 men, and found that a pr0ri-
Dental stump had prevented the whole
wagon load, horses and all from being per-
cipitated down a bank, several hundred
feet. We very soon, however. got part of
the load out, and the wagon on the right
track, and in an hour had tents pitched.
coffee made and were eating our suppers.
Capt. Stoves wagon was really badly up
set in the mud. Thursday morning our
clothes were so wet that We did not get
started till 10 o'clock, Eight miles yet
remained to march ere our destination was
reached, but we made it by , O'clock
This is the hardest march | ever expert
encod. "The three months service" was
nothing to this. The first and second
days our march was nearly all up hill
About l o'clock, Wednesday, We seemed to
reach the backbone of range of hills, and
followed it some distance. 1t seemed like
an immense railroad e~nbankment, on each
side the valley. so far down that we could
not see it for the trees, two or three hun
dred feet at any rate. Yesterday our road
lay along the Renick Run, and a great part
of the way the wagon track was in the
bed of the stream, which was so swollen
BY the recent rains that we foot passengers
were obliged to climb fences, and wade
through fresh corn and tobacco fields. to
the extreme discomfort of our legs and
feet, and the bad shape of our files, Sec ,
and platoons. The boys were all {
glad to get to a stopping place. When ,
re left Columbia some of our boys were ,
quite unwell. but this morning. but
one. reported sick, and he was better than
when we left Columbia.
This is a grand country around here
Capt. Stratton and myself went to the top
of a hill about 500 feet above the River,
this morning, and the view from the sum-
NIT vas very fine, indeed. The hillsides
are covered with cedar trees, which would
be worth a great deal if they were in
Warren. We cut the boughs and make
fecther beds of them. There is a Steam !
FIGURING Mill just across the creek from
US, which is owned By :ecessionists, who
to grind for the Unionists. Col
Bramlettc's 3rd Ky. Regiment have taken
possession Of it, and are running it now.
There is a water power which in Ohio
would be worth $4,000, but there has
been no Yankee ingenuity here to turn it to
account. The Cumberland is not very
wide. but deep at this point, and navigable
for steamers for a considerable dis lance
above. There is a salt well. owned by a
Pennsylvania, in this neighboIhood, which
produces about 70 bushels of salt per day,
Yankee like, he sells to friends or to foes,
if they have the money, although a strong
Union man himself On this side of the
river there are but few sccessionists, and
on the south side some thirty or forty of +
the border rufian sort control the whole )
country. !
ZOllicofer is retreating as fast as posi-
bic, and probably we shall not have much J
to do with him. We can cut off his sup t
plies, nicely, here, having a position COM
handing the river. c
Company C, is one of which no officer a
need to be ashamed. L might specify the s
good qualities of each one Of the Mineral G
Ridge boys, Thomas, Jones, Dunf5rd, Bai-
leg, Leens, &c; or the Girard Toys, the t
Leayitts, Adams, Rush, Iaders, Landcrs. I
&c; the Niles boys Mccartney. Talbitzer's. '
Shelter, &c; and q host of the Warren
boys, and some from almost every town
ship in Tho vicinity. Our Company Com
missary, Culbertson. sees to it that his IA. {
tons are full, or else he lays it up against
the Quartermaster for a future reckoning. 7
Our noG-co1nmissioned officers, and in fact
each man could have a good story truth
fully tod of him. And our good friends
may expect a good report from the Trum-
bull County boys in the 10Th. We hope
they will encourage US by sending us lots
of letters.
Yours, &c.. {