Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-09
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For Hse PomerOy Weekly Telsgtaph.
Letter from the Camp.
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y "a p. pos"ortn .hludieport, ISL SerS T.
% Geo. Fl. Coke, Mansfield, O., Sergeant
Lewis w. Mauck, Cheshire, do.
Bartlett Boice, Kygewiite, do.
2 t. j.. Bradley, Middleport, do.
Vim. Bradbury, Kygerville, Corporal
.t"hn B. Thomas, Middleport, do,
David Skinner, do . do.
Silas S. Fultz, @ Do do.
"a II spnler; Kygervflle, do.
ID. g Arnstroug, Salem, do:
Elisha F. Meek, Middleport, do q
David Hasley Kygerville, do. 2
Joseph Thomas, Middlcport, Drummer.
Our life al Camp Diamond, asa our
trip down the Dhia and mp the Tenncs
see, has been SO graphically described
1aby Caleb, that nothing more need be
said ''@
We arrived here The middle of March,
found ourselves in Coll, Hildebrand' 1
Brigade of Gen. Sherman Division, the
third brigade Of the fifth division Of
Gen. Grants corps Of the Army Of the
Nest. Our camp, tile center in the ad
Vance, in q large peach orchard, beside
= beautifulsprins The country herea-
hout is rolling, considerably cut up with
Z shallow runs, covered with oak and
s'thick uuderbrush, with small clearings
Ut distant intervals. The rock under-
Meath is coarse pudding stone, hy ITS
disintegration forming cold, hea%y clay
soil, filllofp pebbles, poorer in quality
than any soil to be found in the State
of Ohio, with but one redeeming qaal
lty, .he beautiful springs that gush forth
in every vale. A more dreary, d solate
country cannot be found than this, 6t
for nothing, save a battle SO much
for detail. Here We remained until the
9Th Of April, trying to. reeuperate, for
one-half our number were on the sick
list, sunmolested by the enemy, with
out .pickets, intrenchments, batteries
planted, or anything to resist or. give
notice. Of the approach of the enemy
More than once their cavalry and in
fantry had been in sight, and when dis
covered, if they were discovered at all,
had retired. OF the battle l will not
speak, Able peas have been tasked to
the utmost in describing the sccne.---
But nocorrespondent has, 80 far as
know, told correctly the opening Of the
battle, or the part the SD Ohio took in
the conflict, and to this,I vail eSnfne
myself. Sixteen of our company, all
the pickets our Regiment had out, went
eut 200 yards ,Cis not that a rery great
distance) Saturday evening on picket,
and outside pickets at that. They re-
turned at daylight without having been
disturbed. About four, Sabbath morn
ing, our Colonel got uneasy, and sent
out Co.'S B and D in another direction
ton the direct road to Corinth, which rain
parallel to our camp on the West, ut u
distance of one hundred yards, but out
of sight from the underbrush. .Ab0at
half past FIVE they found the enemy ad-
vancing in long lines of battle, in the
most beautifal order, on every side save
the direction of our camp Bear in
mind they were not 200 yards from the
camp, and Mepe the first to discover the
enemy. sI utual selleys were fred, and
a rapid retreat followed on the part OF
the, skirnishers. The firing aroused
tho oon,n tba lanr 70 n 1vos booto, ,o,o
of the men had had their break fast, but
s~e%sosis got in line and fell back to a
ravine in the woods on the east of the
camp. Only Ave hundred of us, for, Of
the nine hundred, one Hundred were in
Ohio sick, two hundred were unfit fol
duty, and another hundred were "or
duty" On came the secesh, 10000
strong, the heaviest column through
our camp, against our front, the west
another column OH our left flank, the
south and rather behind aus, while q
third heavy column was pushing itt
way up ravine, between us and tlie
rest Of the army, on the right and north
Long before we retreated they were il
a direct line between us and the rest O.
our army, and, had it not been for ra
vine behind and to the right which
sheltered us from their fire as we re-
treated, they would have accomplished
their design; all Of us would have beer
prisoners. No regiment was within fv,
hundred yapGs of us to support us, ant
the enemy were surroundiag us, yet w
.awaitedtthefn. On they came, the bay
onets brightly flashing in the, morning
sunbeama, with the steady measured
tramP, the mondepfully straight line
that regulars only could initiate, Har
dee had been drilling them-Hardee
''the tactioian of the age Until til
head ofrshe column in front was withi
so yards, and that ,ons on our LET
within three times shat distance, ,whe
we fred. Down feii their Colonel an
.thirty-six men dead, their Lieut.. Gslone
and scores of others wounded. For thi
we have the authority of a woande
prisoner of The Regiment the Missis
sippi Legion. We were concealed $
well thDt their return fire wounded bu
few, among them Lieut.. Lasley, OF ou
compang. We fell back, rallied, re