The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-10-31
6,nfoth 3sfftrsonian.
Local and Miscellaneous.
HssDauaarrss 4th regiment o. vi,
Ro.linor Heights, Virginia,
October 2Jd. 1862,
TER MS.
yIe Cory, one yssr, ss adv ssee o..

October 23d, 1862.
Eoiroa JrpreNsonIAr--It has been
lene time since you have heard from me
and now, having q few leisure moments, 4
know OF mn better way OF employing them,
thsn by letting you and the friends Of oar
regiment know where we are, what we are
doing, and how we are getting slone. We
arrived here about three weeks ogo, and are
csmped about one mile from Harper Ferry.
AZ for the town | cannot say much, os its
pretent appearance " rather gloomy. The
United Sta es Arsenal buildings which were
all destroyed by fte. show the marks Of de.
s,ruciion, the long b'ackeneI walls OF fne
masonry which are still anding, are a mass
OF ruins. and SHOW what man will DO VIII, n
madness rules bis passion. To add TO this
tho streets are narrow and dirty, and wind
Ground To suit the rocks, In fact the streets
are up hill and down hill, and over rocks
and under rocks, aud some of them barely
admitting Two teams to pass side by side.--
Fhe blnffs around the place present almos
sell Notifications, and with the preparations
now going on, we will soon have here 0
second Gibraltar. When the rebels had
possession of the town, after the late COW.
ardly surrender, they stripped it OF almost
everything in the line Of ealables, and hard.
W LETT enough for the inhabitants to keep
soul and body together, but our Commissa.
RES nave partly supplied their wants, and
they find our army Suffers no inconvenience.
Dur camp is on the main road leae ing via
Charleston 10 Winchester. As for the
health OF the troops in this vicinity il is
good, considering " hat hardships they have
ras ell through within the last three months, /
however there is some sickness aud deaths,
ana rs our camp is neat the town cemetery,
which IS now used by the mill tary, we have
an opportunity OF witnessing from two 10
iour burials every day, but as cold weather
approaches Summer diseases vanish, and
he health Of the soldiers is improv
Our regiment needs some recruiting ia il, |
tanks, rs they have been thinned " differ
ent causes. mostly disease. Seventeen
months ago we were mustered into the ser.
wee Tor three Yeas, and have seen every
mi li,ary point in Virginia except the Kama !
wha Nalley,Rich mountain, Port Republic, |
Centerville, and the Peninsula not eScept.
ed. Thus. you may infer we have seen
some service in the way ofmarching, ut leas
One third OF our regiment now occuples
convslescent camp near GEORGETOWN ID. c.. !
at which place we were before coming here,
but those OF MS who are here, numbering
about 45o. are in good fighting order and
able tor our equal number Of Secesh.
Uncle Abe paid US q visit not long since,
and rode through the different camps ut
tended by his principal Generals. "our lit |
tie Mack not excepted. The bows sent
mp cheer after cheer for the distinguished
oIaccd in MrCI.Ilan 81, ~ 'ennueoe enu,i
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Tha Saor "'e wl,'"s 10 'o'Iow n'm'
nat "uao,s "ers,, oe,"ssisas''Y ms sY TELL
Th. ,sh,J .none ."e ooys.
over ,,,.e MIA c,o,' 80 ,, "' w ',He oet
succ.ssfpl rsconnnis"noa ", 80 o%p, un.', tnr
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