Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-11
Kentucky Army Correspondence.
Especial Correspondence Of the Press.1
The War In Kentucky.
MUMToRDsvfLLE, Ky. Jan, Q, Is

MUNFoRDsvnLE, KY, Jan. 9, 1862. (
Mud, mud, end nothing but mud yesterday.
And of all the muddy places I've ever seen,
Mumfordsville carries the palm. Would II
in any way discommode you or be inconve-
nient with your rules to send me a pair OF
good-szed stills, say about six feet long, go
as to enable me to move from Mrs. Barretts, S,
where am stopping, to the Adams Express
Office. If don't have some mode of loco
motion besides those which nature furnished
me with, fear much for items. have no
serious thoughts Of throwing off this NOR
tai coil' for some time to come, and to be
candid, don't believe l am altogether pre-
| pared just now; and indeed it is nothing
short Of an attempt at suicide to venture on
foot from the railroad to "head. quarters"
The mud is that tough that it holds on to q
fellow as though it wished him to remain
and keep it company. If the colored popu-
lation were only sufficiently keen it would
take them but few minutes to change their
sable hue to dark red They need only lie
down in any part of the streets of MumfOrds-
vile for one moment and their color can
not be detected by the. greatest or most
Ipresume we will make some sort of an
advance to. day across Green River. The
soldiers are all anxious to move and get done
with the war. Yesterday, a Major Tifer,
from the rebel camp, came as far as Wood.
sonville just opposite our camp, with flag
of truce. Word was sent General McCook,
who Immediately dispatched Captain Daniel
MCCoOk and Lieutenant Davis, of his staff,
to meet the flag. They returned with the
report that the rebel Major came for the pur-
pose of arresting a murderer, whom they
learned was now in our camp. The impress
sion here is that this was only a hoax, and
that the scoundres merely wanted to learn
the strength of our forces, and also 10 see if
the bridge across Green River was near being
flushed. Of the former he departed as igno-
rant as when he came, as he was not allowed
to come any nearer than Woodsonville, and
as to the latter, had he only remained one
hour longer he could hear the shouts aud
huTrahs of thousands, as the locomotive
crossed the bridge to the other side.
Yesterday Colonel Starkweather, of the
First Wisconsin, | understand, detected
three masked batteries not far from camp,
along the railroad track. The Coonels
regiment was the advance pickets, and while
| out they detected these batteries.
A young man named Attlebury, of the
Eighteenth Ohio, Colonel Stanley, was hcci.
dentally or mysteriously shot yesterday
while travelling out through the woods near
his own camp He was shot in the abdomen.
The wound is very serious one, and it is
feared will prove fatal. He is Kentuckian
| by birth. No one knows who shot him or
| where the bullet came from.
The Government has taken a iudicious
thought with reference to the comfort and
| health of the troops here by building large
ovens for the purpose of giving them fresh
bread once day. This is a good move, and
the originator should be forever considered
phianthropist. Now, instead of having
the everlasting hard biscuit stuck at them
three times day (and sometimes it must be
soaked in water several hours by those hav
irg bad teeth before they can masticate it,
they will have good, soft bread-a luxury
long expected and eagerly looked for. No
sooner was the news of the erection of these
bakeries made known than rumor spread
abroad of the arrival of some Quartermasters
ard Commissaries from Western Virginia.
This information brought terror to many a
heart, and if it turns out to be so it will not
fail to bring many brave man to an un-
timely grave. General Buel is very attentiv
to bis men, and it is to be hoped he will not
admit any of those rascals, to pollute the
army of Kentucky, by allowing even one OF
them inside the lines They have feeced
the soldiers in Western Virginia for six long
| months, and now to be sent here would en-
rich them forever; for of all the thieves and
rascals living, the Quartermasters and Com.
missaIies Of Western Virginia carry the day.
LATER.
Since writing the a0oVe I am informed
that deserter from Buckners camp has ar.
rived, and gives a sickening picture of the
condition of the rebel troops. He says they
are perfectly disorgaDized, and that the
| TYPHOID fever is Taking them down; he re.
ports to have witnessed as many as thirty
burials in one day. The hospitals are
| crowded with the sick and the dyiug, and
that there is no medicine hardly to be found
in the camp. A truly reliable Correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Commercial published an
article in that paper few days ego, ia which
be had some qUalmS of conscience with refer
ence to drunken officers. Well, now, this
correspondent, instead of publishing such
malicious articles, should put on his ''cleri-
cal" robes and preach repentance and re-
mission of sin" ana then 90 on his knees
and ask Gods pardon for writing snch Ii.
bells. AS a clergyman bis first duty, it
seems to me, wound be to go and visit the
officer referred to, and preach to him "the
everlasting Gospel of the son of man." and,
if that WAS not sufficient, his next duty would
be to repeat them TO the General command.
ing But, instead OF this he CONES out and
exposes TO the enemy-whether Intentionally
or otherwise | am unable to say-lhe veal,
points of our army. The officers against
whom be has tried his battery are the most
efficient and most accomplished in our army;
aud if be only looked at them while on drill
be could not help sag ing that they are the
best drilled iD the division. The only rea
son assigned here for his malicious article
is, that the officers whom he alluded to in his
reliable letter would not suffer him to cate.
chise them. He is we'll paid for preachiug
and think be should attend to it. Instead
of PaddiDg and visiting from house to house
as be is wont to DO, he should visit the sick
of his regiment, of which cases he has {
large number. | will leave this sauctife(
/ correspondent in the hands of the prope
a authority, knowing that "He fOrgiveth al
2 things right" M.E.J.
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