Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-06-23

circumstance giving rise TO tOecasionat'sa
anonymous and unsoldierly paragraph,
was an evidence Of the Majors humanity
and good sense, Being detailed to bring
the Kansas troops out Of Misscuri he
found many sore-bacled horses in the
command at Carthage-caused partly by
negligence Of officers and men, and partly
by forced marches. The horses the riders
were ordered to lead half the way to Fort
Scott, as it would have been downright
brutality to ride them. This is the secret
Of "Occasionals' grumbling. If every
private is allowed TO yentilate his dislike
for obeying orders by attacking his super
Tor officer in the public prints, you see at
once that discipline is at an end. There is
a proper way Of adjusting wrongs when
they occur.
Since beginning this letter Col. Double
day has left for LeavenWorth, and thence
for Washington. He may temporarily
Withdraw his resignation, on arriving
at Leavenworth, if there is prospect Of
obtaining justice through Washington in
fuence.
Recent report says that Gen. Rains, at
Fort Smith, is organizing force Of 10, 900
men from the debris Of Prices army, to
march toward Fort Scott-of course wiping
us out in his progress. This (ths wiping
QUIT would be an amusing episode in our
! episodical campaign, and at least furnish
change from this everlasting Landscape
Of interminable and ilimitable blue sky
| i. e., we might look upward at the grass,
or downward at the sky
The members of Company I taken pris-
oners at Horse Creek, Mo-, have been ex-
/ changed, and are now with their company.
Sergeant Smith, one of the captured men,
I who was paroled by Jackman to secure the
exchange, was taken i'll on his arrival at
Fort Scott, and as the regiment was about
to march there was poor prospect for the
release of the other boys, and Smiths own
parole was about to expire. In this dilem-
ma Sergeant Isaac Pierce of the same COM
pany volunteered to run the gauntlet of a
! hundred miles Of bushwhackers and go to
the enemys camp in Smiths place. He
has done so, and returned with his men
Misunderstanding himself a soldier
worthy of the Union cause. Es7
This bivouaeing on the prairie is
somewhat better than camping in Potomac
mud The ground is thoroughly dry and
the air pure-henee health abOunds. One
feels like CrusOe, or Vallandigham while
looking upon the magnificent but lonely
distances of this Dixian realm. One feels
/ historic, heroic-when he wakens from a
sleep in the hefty clover" with the dew
in his beard, the sun in his eye, and crick-
cts in his boots. Well our part Of the war
is rather stale, but we console ourselves
with the reflection that Potomac army of
$50, 1000 lay in greater quiet than ours for
nearly a year, gazing into the painted
muzzles Of Eastwood guns.
Not every regiment Of an army of 600-
900 men can indulge each day in Mara
thon before breakfast, Solferino as siesta,
and a Shiloh in the evening. On the great
chess-board there are many pawns-yes,
even valiant knights, that may never take
a piece, but all are working to the same
end-the final checkmate. Go to, let us be
consOledl This border work must be done
our fsnks must be supported; the I'd
Ohio may as well do border work and sup
port hanks as anybody else. Besides it's
about the safest business on record-except
enlisting in the thirty day service.
A. B. N.