Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-03-27
FROM THE 4sD REGIMENT.

FROM THE 4sD REGIMENT.
A,sri.l Correspondence Of the Belmont Chronicle.
ARMY OF H MISSISSIPPI,
CAMP New MADRID,
March, 1862.
Since my last letter the ADD has visited
he town and Notifications Of New Madrid,
Indst the permission granted in the follow
ny order:
HEADQUARTERS MISSISSIPPI Dist,
NEW MADRID, March IA, '62.
SPECIAL NO. 55.
In consideration Of tho distinguished SER
rices of the 3yth, 9th, 43d aud 63d Ohio
Regiments, composing the lst Division,
command of Brig. Gen. ID. 5. Stan
.ey, tho 10th and 10Th Illinois Regiments
under command Of Col. L. D. Morgan,
A and II, LIST Regular Infantry,
under command of Capt. Mower, which
aided greatly in the capture Of New Madrid,
will be permitted to march, under COM
inand Of their officers, into the Fort and
Intrenchments and through the streets Of
the town but they are strictly prohibited
from breaking ranks or struggling from the
columns.
The troops above specified will be assem-
bled to-day at | o'clock, p. NJ, for this pur,
pose. BY order of GEN. POPE.
SPEED BUTLER, A. A. General.
Tho Regiments wero marched down
pastthe entertainments occupied by US dur
ing the engagement and into the rebel fort,
which was sufficiently large to hold on its
cn,bsnkments or earth walls in regular
order five Regiments of troops, which were
marched up to occupy them. SO forcibly
we're we struck with the strength and ca
pacity of the work, that the opinion was
freely expressed that two Regiments Of our
troops could hold it against an attack from
any army that could be mustered against it,
as long as there was no approach from the
river side by gunboats. This capture can
not fail to have, in fact it has had, . good
effect upon our troops; and they are not
only willing but anxious for an opportunity
TO meet the Southern bloods who have
talked so much about "cowardly Yankees
and boosted so long Of their superior
bravery. To any ono who will calmly sur
voy tho whole matter, their cowardly HighI
from such protection as they assessed here
can be accounted for on no other hypothesis
than that they are hunting the last ditch,
in which they have talked so much about
dying In defence Of their rights" and have
no notion, as they never said they would
Of dying in any other; or in f%ulfllment Of tn,
assertions Of Senator Benjamin hat "yol
may ovcrrun the South and by your mum
bers destroy it, but you never can subjugat
u.s. They are keeping out Of our reach
knowing full well that we cannot subjugat
them until we catch them and this, it |
feared, will not be done until we got them i
the last ditch" We are, however, il
pursuit Of them with q fleet Foor, and ma.
succeed in winding some Of them bcfor
they get there.
After the five Regiments on the walls {
tho Fort had given three air splitting cheer
for the Union, the 43d was marched fror
the Fort TO the town, where We behold sue
q scene Of destruction and dosolation as ma
bave marked the pathway of the Cloths mn,
Vandals in their barbarous progress througI
Rome, but such rs was never witnesse
after the march Of o civilized army, an
this. too, in the ''house Of their friends.
There is not 4 house within the range G
their pickets and without the protection q
our army that docs not bear the marks @
their Vandalism. The public building,
with their records and papers, the houses ,
private individuals, the shrubbcry and tree
the ornament and improvements, that ha,
been the results Of cultivated taste, the !,
Dor Of months, and the growth Of year
have all alike, whether the property Of tn
public or OF the private citizen, fallen b,
meath the crushing, destroying power ,
these modern Reformers--thess boaste
champions Of tho reserved rights" Of II
people and the, States. How different tn
from what follows our occupancy Of the
villages and townsl As We passed throus
Commsres, Syksstown, and into New Ma
lid everything like private property, exec
forage, absolutely necessary for the use
our stock, was held sacred and left %inviolat
30 scrupuious were our officers upon tn
point.thAt q man in TOUR Regiment who ",
found In possession Of . sheep skin was CON
PEELED, under the charge ola non.commi
stoned officer, to return it to the place fro
which he had taken it, although hs ",
nearly a mile from it when he was deteots
with II.
There are few Regiments in the soryi,
that have been as fortunate in the line
their profession a. ours has. Many Oh
troops have been in the service for six, eigh
and ten months, and have never been ind
fire. or in 40 shsskement. The AID b
been In the field less than 9 month. and b,
hesn under Gre three times,-has assist
II fhd capture Of an important post, al
resolved the commepdatiOp oftho Gensl