Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-03
WHGLE NO. 1,178.



Golfer in the Mil Spring fight was mounted by
Col Fry, after his horse was shot and disabled.
The horse fairly belongs 70 the Colonel as the
"spOils of war"
Gen. Scott's coachman, whose capture BY
the retels, after the battle Of Bull Run, was be
lieved to have been made with bis own consent,
has returned among the exchanged prisoners.
He says that he made every effort 70 escape, and
did escape once. but recaptured.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, has re
Gently been on a visit to the 10th Ohio regiment,
at Green river
james E. Murdoch, the great actor, has two
sons in the Union army.
The friends of Colonel Manson are urging
the President TO appoint him a Bigadier General
for gallant conduct displayed in the recent engage
ment with ZOlIicoffer's forces
Lieutenant Colonel Morris, Of the I'd Indiana
cavalry, and Lieutenant Colonel Mahan. of the
18th Indiana, have resigned. The health Of the
latter would not admit of his remaining longer in
the service.
The ''loyal" Republican who last summer
declared that the Union was "a Id humbug and
not worth HI ROOM" is now understood TO be
in favor of emancipating and arming the slaves
He has no faith in the courage and ability Of
white men to fight the battles of the Constitution
and the Union.
Michael Grady, Of Lafayette. a member Of
Co. /, 10th regiment, was wounded in the battle
of Mill Spring on the 18th inst musket ball
entered his neck on the left side and he writes TO
his mother that in its course through it knocked
out most Of his teeth He is now in the hospital
at Louisville.
- Major Sabin, of the 59th Indiana regiment.
recruiting at Gosport, has now 500 men, and the
regiment is filling up rapidly. The regiment will
probably soon remove to New Albany, and camp
at the Fair Grounds
The accounts of the battle of Somerset con
cur in stating that it the bayonets of the bully
Germans from Cincinnati-the 9th Ohio Militia
that materially contributed to the decisive vic
tory.
A correspondent, writing concerning the
battle of Somerset, KY, says that the only troops
in the active fight were Woolford's three hun
dred, the Indiana 10Th. Kentucky 4th, Minnesota
ID, and Ohio 9th, the Kentucky 18th getting up
in time to give one volley The 10th Kentucky
and the regulars we're not there as represented by
the newspapers.
DECEASED SoLDIERs-The following soldiers
died in the general hospitals in Louisville, during
the week ending January oath, 1862:
January l7th.-HKon Simons, Co. F, 57th
Indiana David Steurer, Co. I, 30th Indiana.
January lS-Henry Rider, Co |, 30th Indiana;
Mari nd MatfhoW
Burns, Co. G, 10th Indiana.
January l9-Altaero Felter, Co. |, 34th India
ma; Samuel Wathorn, Co. d, 34th Indiana.
January 20-Lowry NJ. Glass, Co. K, 37th In
diana; Samuel Withrow, Co. ID. 39th Indiana.
January 2l-George Heck, 18th Indiana; Dix
on Underwood, Co. G. 3Sth Indiana.
January DE. c. Macy, Co. G, 36th Indiana;
Noah Bennett. Co. F, 37th Indiana; NJ. Level
en-. Co. F, 36th Indiana.
John Stansbury, Co. G, 30th Indiana.
January 23-Adam Sworswoller, Co. G, 3Oth
Indiana.
At St. Louis the following deaths are re-
ported
January 2O-Andrew Baker; Co. H, 22d In
diana.
January 2l-James L. Powell, Co. d, 25th In
diana; John W. Stevens, Co. l. 25th Indiana.
January 24-John L. Driscoll, Co. |, 25th In
diana.
-CoLoxEL STEELE's SPEEcH.-Last Tuesday
evening, January 2lst, we had the pleasure of
hearing address from Colonel Steele, of the
34th regiment, explaining the reason of his res
gnaton, and also describing the situation of that
division of the army, which, he was sorry to say,
was not so favorable as he could desire. His res
ignation proceeded from two causes: The expo
and arduous duties Of camp life brought on an
attack of rheumatism and rendered him unfit for
service and, secondly, his superior officers tyran
lied over him to a degree uncomfortable, anc the
inferior officers disobedent and turbulent,
and continually conspired against him to procure
his removal, in order that they might stand a
chance OF promotion. And so, to prevent the
regiment being torn dsunder and disgraced by in
terna dissension, he resigned his command, and
thus prevented further disturbance.
His speech was mild and conciliatory. forming
quite a contrast with his unreasonable enthusiasm
a few months ago. He bewailed the calamity of
war; and regretted that American citizens were
seeking to destroy one another; he said that the
reason why the two armies did not hasten gen
eral engagement was because every soldier felt
in his own bosom that be fighting his own
brethren, and naturally very reluctant; and
although their hands were raised to strike, yet
they hesitated to deal the destructive blow, be
cause they could not feel otherwise than as breth
ren of the same blood and lineage.
He did not talk this way six months ago. Then
he called the Southerners traitors, tories enemies
to free Government and secession seouudres, and
enioined every man to go and fight them till no
"rebel" should be left to tell the tae but now be
mildly terms them "erring brethren" and does
not seem to be so desperately rantankerous Tor
war as formerly. he is no doubt convinced that
war is not the way to reconstruct the Union; he
hoped that the omnipotent power might avert the
dire Gala nifty of any further conflicts, and ex-
pressed the earnest desire that the bitter cup may
pass from
He emphatically condemned the wanton and
useless destruction of the property of Southern
men BY the Northern forces. which he sad was
making bitter enemies of those who had been and
who otherwise would be friends. Why could not
Col. Steele have carried his arguments little
farther, and made the admission that waging war
upon them, and killing them by the thousand is
no way to reconstruct the Union, and make
friends of those who unfriendly toward US in
consequence of the injury and i'll treatment in
ficted upon them by the Northf The Colonel
assured US, however, that his boys were "nice
boys" and did not modest private property.
He concluded by predicting that if the war con-
tinued a year longer, there would be a powerful
effort to transform it into an abolition war. The
wonder with us is why Col. Steele did not see this
long ago. We said at the first that it was an abo-
lition war, and we say so vet. Ii Is an abolition
crusade and was so intended by Lincoln and other
chiefs of the departments, who steer the machine,
and the subaltern officers and soldiers who have
no power to object.
Upon the whole, We rather liked Col Steele's
speech. 1t was delivered with calmness and en-
bodied a conservative sentiment. But the best
evidence that il good speech Is that the
Abolitionists don't like it because he repudiated
the idea of making il emancipation war-they
are as mad as hornets -BIackford Dem
- PoLrrIcs OF OUR GESERALs.-The following
Generals in the Union army are Democrats
Mcclellan, Halleck, Buell. Rosecrans, Sherman,
Wood Dix Rntler. Rnrnside McDnHell