Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-01-16


take weeks to repair the damage done to
the road at that place, We understand
they have blownin the tunnel there the
whole length, some four or five hundred
yards. Et
Major Wallace met with an accident whilst
on picket last Tuesday morning. He had
occasion to take his pistol belt of and whilst
re- placing it one of'the pistols slipped off the
belt and fell upon the ground, exploding the
load Of one barrel, taking effect in his left
foot near the heel, wounding him slightly
1t is not likely he will be disabled from it
for more than two or three weeks. The boys
say If he is not more careful in future they
will ask the Colonel to take his pistols from
him, as we can't do without the Major now,
he is entirely too useful an institution in
the Fifteenth to be shooting himself. The
whole labor Of managing the regimental af-
fairs is upon Col Dickey and Adjutant Taft.
They however, are equal to the emergency.
Our brass band was mustered out of the
service this week, and sent home. Good, we
say. They never we're of any account II
the Government would mustera few more
outlof the service in this division it would be
we'll Each division ought to have one brass
band to sereaaie the Generals. 1 don't
know of any other use they can be put to.
Old Sammy Geller can make more useful
music on his drum than all the brass bands
on Green River.
Sergeant Sam'l Hills, Of Co. Il, and
Sergeant Alexis Cope, Of Co. X, will bt
sent home in the course Of two or three
! days to recruit for the regiment in Old Bel
mont We hope they may be successful. -
Now, young men, is your chance to get it
the odoance of our army in Kentucky; i
$ you are men of spirit you can come right t,
$ the front, no laying in camp and reading o
the advance of the army to Bowling Green
and Nashville, no laying back in the rea
. and guarding Railroad bridges, or garrison
1 ing secesb villages; but you can come t
the front and get into the leading Brigad
= OF the advance division Of this department
!, and into Bully regiment We onl
! ne.d mention the position the Fifteent
Ohio occupies in order to speak of the est
nation in which it is held. Come along
then, and fill up the Belmont Companies t
the maximum.
The health of the regiment is good, eor
sidering the inroads the measles made upo
it, aud the season of the year. We fine
@ however, as we get through tho winter an
Il the measles that those who are not able |
d stand the campaign are being discharged |
= the physicians, and by spring we will ha,
e the regiment down to Fighting weight,
l. The weather is quite warm here at presen
N though rainy, and the camp is very nude
q and disagreeable.
,e Corporal Laban Mitchell, of 70. X, Car
VS. Holloway, died in. the Hospital here
ct fever on Monday night last. He is to
N buried here to-day. His body was Ike
r. until this time to await the arrival Of Steph
Ia Hobson, who was coming to soc him, al
9, take him home, 1t was thought his bo
III might be sent home, but it was found up
I. examination to be impossible, and Lab
le will be buried Mere. He was young m
,g of good mind and education. His parei
Mt are Friends, and in that faith had educat
IN Laban ; but when this unholy war was 20
III menced up the Government of his fath'
fe ho deemed it his duty to defend it agail
, the unholy attacks of those who sought
A. destroy his birthright. He came in t
to same spirit that he would have gone to t
O. defense of his Father or Mother against t
:" assaults Of an assassin. A better, true
re nobler spirit has not been sacrificed in Il
he war. "Peac, to his ashes"