Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-04-18
Tennessee River Expedition.
From our Correspondent.
tsev from Tho 7Qd IReRImeuf.

CAMP SHILOH, PrTTsBURo, Tenn, April j, '62.
After several days Of painful labor name
has been produced for our Camp, which is Civ.
en- above. tits undoubtedly ofgreat antiquity
and shows plainly that there are Bible readers
even in the 72nd.
We are beginning to realize that we are in
the "sunny South" Old Sol begins to pour
down his hottest rays upon us, making the sha-
dy side of a tent tree or the like, much the most
bearable. The weather is quite Spring like,
and little more cold need be looked for here
Vegetation does not seem to come forward asl
rapidly as the warm weather would warrant one
to suppose it would. The trees have not yeti
put on their livery of green, nor has the grass
yet started but little.
| So Fremont is assigned to active duty, and a
Department given him This is the dawningI
Of light from the Executive Mansion" Lett
the country longer despair, but rejoice in the
certain crowning of success. Let us hope that
the day of snowy preparation, wonderful "strat-
egy, "masterly inactivity" and general pros
tration, is past. Let us believe that hereafter
our 100000 brave troops are not to sap and ex-
haust the treasury, and to sicken and die in
Camp, but to move upon the enemy and hastily
crush the rebellion. May the President go on
with increased energy, and if he has not run at
the head of the different posts of the army who
,oiH not 90 ahead and do son,ething let him sus-
pend those now there, and fill their places with
better. We have had quite enough of "wonder-
full combinations and great strategy now let
us have little of warfare IN earnest. AL UNI
der heavens that is necessary to crush the re-
bellion is to cease naction and go 10 ,0ork
Miserable partizan, tory sheets may revile and
III l.
stands before the American people to-day one
of the ablest Generals, and most devoted pa
triots. Despite the malignant attempts to inn
peach his administration of the Missouri De-
partment, subsequent events have shown that
{ Fremont was right able, and terribly in earnest
q that his plans were the best. Let the people
remember that the gun-boats, which are sucl
objects of terror to the rebels, were especially
. recommended by Fremont for which he wa'
c bitterly assailed by his enemies. That the ter.
, ribe mortar boats, which to be the chief re-
lance in the opening of the Mississippi, were
, authorized by Gen. Fremont. Let any man
!, tell, if he can, wherein Gen. Halleck has moi
followed out the plans and policy of Fremont
Let any candid honest man study carefully
Frcmonts conduct, what he accomplished and
under what circumstances, and then say if he
, dare, that he is unfit to lead an army.
Yet doubt not Mr. Lincoln will be bitterly
assailed by the treason sympathising press OF
) himself will be assailed with a malevolence un-
; worthy demon, by great part of the social
ed Democratic press The same papers which
beslaver Mcclellan with praises, and laud hin
to the skies, for doing nothing, will fercely hur
their venom at Fremont, and denounce him il
the most unmeasured terms, because he oriH 81
ahead and accomplish something. The natioI
c has had quite enough of McClellan's General
ship which has cost tho Government vastly
{ more in proportion than did Fremonts manage
n n ment in Missouri, and all who are Jealous an
\ earnest in the Country's cause will heartily re
u ioice that Mr.. Lincoln has at last severed th
II gordan knot of imbecility and fruitless delay
n which so immnently threatened the absolut
e ruin of the Nation. We will now see who ar
Z the earnest patriots, and who are with the reb
J els; aud whether the same sheets which are 81
malignant toward all criticisms of Mcclellan
: Generalship, will not from the start abuse anC
y villify the gallant Pathfinder.
y am panied to record the death of soldie
! of the 72d Loderic Miller, of Company A
n died night before last about 10 o'clock He re
. sided in Groton, Erie Co., o. where he leave
e an esteemed wife TO mourn his death. His dis
N ease was fever of typhoid character.
le Quiet reigns with this portion of the army
y though we know not at what time we may &c
;" the order to march. The rebels are reporte
strengthening themselvesat Corinth, and to hav
+ "great numbers" there. They doubtless wan
" to play their old game on us, and keep us bac
~ ~ by reporting great numbers on their own side
~ i The rebels are reported destroying their cot
y ton in our advance to prevent its falling into on
' hands. A few days since they removed tn
cotton from plantation not tioo miles outside {
n: n: our lines Does not this demonstrate the e1
Il treme mildness and forbearance practiced b
is y our Generals toward "erring brethren" and
y they should deliberately fire volley into III
y house of a Union citizen, where was defense
re less family, which they did the other day not
u half mile from our pickets, it only shows til
IL paci6catory results of our mildness towar
I them.
Il Friends and relations sending letters or pa
~ pers to us, should be careful and write their d
y rections plainly, Addressing I'D Regiment
f l9 V. l., naming the company, via. Louisville, K,
OF oi Many letter never reaches its destination ov
m ol ing to the bungling indistinct address put "
10 10 on them.
fal Uncle Peter is ready to start with the ma
90 and / must close.
ut SEvENTY-SlX.