Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-06-12
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE.

CAMP CUMBERLAND, 1.-TWO miles above the Ford,l
May %. 1862,
FRIEND EsTIL
After long delay and much
anxiety, the ''powcrs that be" concluded to make
forward movement. For q few days every
thing was in state of agitation; the knowing
ones winked their eyes and whispered of great
event, to come, giving positive assurance that
we would have fight or a foot-race, very soon.
Every man felt better. In fact the hope Of get
ting out Of thisconfoundcd wilderness is enough
to make any one feel good. The long looked
tor day came at last. At noon on Thursday, 2lst
inst, we left camp, reaching this point at o.
clock p. NJ, where We cncampcd for the night
We expected to start again the next morning by
4 O'Clock; but by nine that evening we found that
the design of the expedition was to capture some
six regiments of rebels that had left Cumber-
land Gap for Big Creek Gap, which is some thir-
ty miles from this point. Unfortunately they
started to return before started after them;
this information stopped all further movement
We arc now cncampcd on Clear Creek, engaged
in throwing up works for defence, with the pleas
ing prospect of staying here until the year
nineteen hundred. One consolation is, that we
have any quantity of company in the shape of
bugs, snakes, and Lizards, of all shapes, colors
and Dimensions. The nights are meodious with
the songs of frogs, toads, bugs and ever persist
ent night hawk, whose cry is changed in seeming
mockery at our delay to whip 'em well, "whip
em we'll" The boys curse them and swearthey
would like to have the chance.
The number of our brigade is 26. command
ed by Col. de Courcey Lieutenants Stine and
Bea are on his staif--the first aid dc camp, the
latter as acting assistant Adjutant General
This change leaves Col, Baly in command of the
10Th Ohio.
That ever welcome parsonage, the paymaster,
visited us on Saturday last, paying us for two
months; on Monday nextwe will be paid for two
months more. Just as we were being paid off,
suttcr quartered near our lines; Re was soon
surrounded, and any quanty of sausage, cheese
and fancies captured" lie had to call for a
guard to protect him. That's the way the boys
get back some OF the interest on the money they
loaned HIM.
The news of General Hunters proclamation
created quite STR IN our camp, ltS eHuoTseWeh'
by the President would have lost to this division
not less than thirty officers, and entirely disor'
ganized the Ky. and Tenn. Regiments. They
like many others, but little difference be-
+ tween rebellion for negroes and rebellion against
2 negroes. They declare that if they must fight
against the Constitution, they could rot helI
sympathising with the South. No doubt many
conscientious meu may think that such talk il
profanc-that they are all rebes--but the hard
. ships and pers that they have endured, refute'
. all such nsinuations, and should show to the ma
ton that when the abolition of slavery is attempt
J. ed by the President, then indeed, is the Unior
/. gone The great mass of the army will neyc
: fight under an abolition banner, and the mor'
the question is discussed the greater heartburn
ings it causes to our soldiers, and causes them t.
have less faith in the power of the Government
s. AS soldiers and lovers of the Union, we pray 70
the time and men that-wil treat this question II
a fair, manly, and constitutional manner.
Yours, truly,
NJ b. DE S.