Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-02-07
Second Quartsrly Report Soldiers Aid Society
Of Delaware County, O.

Second Quartsrly Report Soldiers Aid Society
Of Delaware County, o.
| List 0l articles sent 10 TIC Ohio zUgl, Camp
| King. Ky.-5 pairs sheets, 5 comforts, 4 bed
quilts. bed tick. l blanket. pairs pillow
ticks, 3 pillows, 10 pairs pillow cIses. IL WOOL.
en- shirts, IA Canton flannel shirts, ! pairs
woOlen drawers. q pairs Canton flannel drivers,
dressing gowns, pairs socks, pairs nit
tens, rolls of bandages and boxes of lint, Il
pounds sugar, % cans fruit, = packages spices,
package magazines, ? packages papers
List Of urtipIes sent to the Ist and I'd Ten
nessee Regiments at Somerset Ky.-39 pairs
WOODEN drawers. 46 woOlen shirts. pairs pants.
l 'over-coat, l wooden blouse, l64 pairs socks,
"a pairs mittens-
Capt. Van Deman's Company, Goth Regi-
meut.-32 pairs mittens.
Capt. Bnxtnn's COMPANY. Goth Regiment
30 pairs mittenz.
Received from the Delaware Run Society,"
bed quilts, 2 comforts, 8 pairs sheets, 2 pill
lows, pairs pillow cases, cotton ghiris, 2
pairs flannel drawers, rolls bandages, l roll
linen, package books and papers.
Received from the Tanktown Soldiers Aid
Sociery.-2 bed quilts, l blanket, pillows,
, pairs socks, under shirts, 2 towels, cash
I3 c,nts. S. NJ. KiLBouRX,
Treasurer, S. y. S.
From private letter received from friend
in the tglh Ohio Regiment, Col De Uourcey
commanding We make the following extracts:
SOMERSET, Ky, Jan. %, 1862.
This is very rainy and
d'sAgrceablr day. Our camp is three miles from
Somerset. We left Lexington on Monday
morning. Jan. 18Th morning very oold-and
arrived here on Sunday, l9th about 5 o'clock.
p. ill.,, at which time the firing Of cannon was
going ON briskly, aud continued until it was
quite dark, Whtn it erased but was renewed
about o'clock Monday morning. when the
terrific Aling awakened me, and I lay III my
muslin house listening to it till the gray moru-
iug appeared and with it the fi' ing ceacttl.-
wondered why the firing commenced at midi
night again, but Suon learned the rebels were
retreaiins a-russ the Cumberland, aud our for
ceS were giving it 10 them The battle field
Was about eight miles from here. You have
Alli s.ls. alyIlling abaut it. Xilieoftr'S rc-
n'4ipS Iass d by here OH Saturday for L.xing-
tOn' md some three hundred and thirty of the
captured horses and mules. aud Lis Brigadr
Surgeon was in camp on Saturday lie was
taken priSoner-was formerly from Wooster,
O.iir.
We heard considerable firing Of cannon this
atIerIi on. Suppose there WAS battle going
ON somewhere. We are going from here TO
Cumberland Gap, in few days lis 20 miles
u good long march for US. We had a hard
march from Lexington here. Saturday and
Sunday it rained all day--mud from anclc to
knee dep for some 81 miles. Many Of the
boys threw away knap>ackr blankets, shirts.
drawers, ovcr-codts, &c, and when We arrived
here all were tired, and we did not seem in
good trim for Il fight.
The country here is somewhat broken, TIM
Der good. The cleared land is Killed in farm
iug-totally worn oHt-lnuLs desolaie in the
extreme With Hathing but poverty grass ON il.
The country people here are generally poor,
and barely live; are very ignorant; but very
few Of them can read much less write. Land
sells from 81 TO Sc per acre. The health of
the Regiment is trl.rably g"ol. Have not been
to tie battle field yet, Col. De Courccy, is
vnry strict.
We may not leave here for week yet, as the
roads are very bad. The ground is not frozen
here. Limestone is plenty. Around Lexiug-
Ton the country cannot be beaten for forty
miles. Saw on the way here some very fne
vineyards. Ono saw had about ] 5 acres
it was grand TO Look at, Negroes abound
around LcxiI gion, but here they are scnrce-
The people are too poor TO own any. People
here oje hundred years behind the times
know nothing Of rcaperS, threshing machines.
&c. scud you a small piece Of marble l
picked pat Henry Gays monument, near Lex,
inGtOn.
Tlr London rTrsE anoHnrGS that the Open
ing of the great international exhibition will
not hc postponed OH account of the death of
prnCt. Albert Inn that ClTRtsI, or.I,