The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-06-14
HEAD Q'Rs 5rH DIV, AMY OF TEE TExN.,(
y CAMP BEFoRE CoRIxTH, May 80, 1862.

The GenefaI Commanding the 0tl DIVISION.
Right Wing-takes this occasion to express to
the officers and men Of his command, his great
satisfaction with them. for the courage, steadi-
ing the past month Since leaving our memo
rable camp at Shiloh-we have occupied and
strongly entrenched, seven distinct camps in q
manner to excite the admiration and high COM
mendation Of Gen. Halleck. The Division has
occupied the right flank Of the Grand Army,
thereby being more exposed and calling for
more hard work and larger Guard details than
from any other single Division and the Com
manding General repeats that his officers aid
men haye promptly and cheerfully fulfilled their
duty, and have sprung to the musket or the
spade according to the occasion, and have just
reason to claim large share of the honors that
are due the noble army for the glorious victory
terminating At Corinth on Yesterday: and it al.
fords him great pleasure, to bear full and willing
testimony to the qualities Of his command that
have achieved this victory, q victory none the
less decisive, because attended With compartive-
ly little loss OF life. But few days ago large
and powerful Rebel army lay at Corinth, with
outpcsts extending to our very camps at Shiloh.
They held two Railroads extending north and
south, east and west across the whole extent Of
their country, with q vast number Of locomotives
and cars to bring to them speedily and certainly
their reinforceneDts and supplies They called
TO their aid all their armies. from every quarter,
abandoning the sea coast and the great River
Mississippi, that they might overwheIm us with
numbers in the place of their own choosing. =
They had their chosen leaders, men of high rep.
utation and courage, and they dared US to leave
the cover Of our iron clad ganboats to come and
6ght them in thSVf trenches and the still more
dangerous swaDps and ambuscsdes Of their
southern forts Their whole country from Rich
mond to Memphis and from Nashville to Mobile,
rung with their taunts and boastings, as to how
they would immediate the Yankees IL they dared
to leave the Tennessee river. They boldly and
de6antly challenged US to meet them at CoriDth.
We accepted the challenge and came slowly and
without attempt at concealment to the very
ground Of their selection and they have fed
awg. We yesterday, marched unopposed thro'
the burning embers Of their destroyed camps
and property, and pursued them to their swamps
until burning bridges plainly confessed they had
fed. and not m4rched away for better ground.
Il is victory as brilliant and important as any
recorded in history, and every officer and soldier
who has lent his aid, has Just reason to be proud
Of his part. No amount Of sophistry or words
from the leaders Of the Rebellion can succeed in
giving the evacuation of Corinth, under the cir
cumstances, sny other title, than that of signal
defeat more humiliating to them and their cause,
than ii We had entered the place over the dead
and msngled bodies of their soldiers We are not
hear to kill and slay, but to uphold the honor
and just authority Of that Government which has
been bequeathed to Us by our hopored fathers,
and to whom we would be recreant If We per-
mitted their work to pass TO our children marred
and spoiled by ambitious and wicked Rebels.
The General commanding, whilst thus claim
ing for bis Division their just share in this glo.
rious result, must 1t the same time. remind them
that much yet remains to be done, and that there
must still continue the came vigilance, patience,
industry and obedience, till the enemy lays down
his arms, and publicly acknowledge that for
their supposed grievances, they must obey the
laws Of their country and not attempt its over
throw BY threats, by cruelty and By var. They
must be made to feel and acknowledge the pow.
er of . just and mighty Nation. This result
can only be accomplished by cheerful and red.
dy obedience TO the orders and authority Of our
own leaders. in whom We now have just reason
to feel the most implicit confidence. That the
5th Division Of the right wing viii do this, and
that in due time, We shall all 20 to our families
and feends at home, is the earnest prayer and
wish Of your immediate commander. a.E s.s
W.T.. SHEaxAx, Major General sisi -e,,
J. 81. HAhxonD, Yi
Acting Adj't General, Chief Of stahf