The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1862-04-19
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FROM our WAR CORRESPONDENT
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cross Timbers. ArksnsAs. March 81, lSs3.
FalESD MAYNARD:
| Here We lie in glorious inactivity
and glorious uncertainty; but we hav,
learned BY this time, to bide our time, ant
take things as they come. The weather fol
the last few days has been Is 6os - hear
could wish, and We are we'll camped FOL
wood and water. Price and bis army ar,
beyond the Arkansas, With but little pros.
pect OF re-crossing it TO attack Us.
1t is one hundred miles from here to Var
Bureo--For. Smith is on the opposite sid.
Of the river, Eve miles below Van Buren.-
We suppose that when our forces on tht
Mississippi, reduce No. 10, and Memphis
they will push up the Arkansas with guu
boats. and We, re inforced, will meet them
at Little Rock. This is purely conjecture
We know NO more OF the movements in.
tended thnn the man 10 the moon.
The army hero is generally healthy a,
present, but month Of inaction xill make
fearful havoc sish it. hope We will move
soon in some direction. =
There are 700 wounded mep lying at Cass.
ville-our soldiers. The rebel wounded
have been mainly taken 10 Bentonviile, Ar
kansas. Our Surgeons are doing all they
can to alleviate the sufIerings OF the gallan,
fellows who 80 robly stood the bruns Of
battle in the Ozark Pass" on those three
eventfal days. But Surgeons are mortal
and neither omnipotent nor omniprcsen.,
and We need more help and more lururie,
for the boys.
l presume the Iowa /" Patriots'' who
docked to Fort Donelson "by steamer and
By rail" are all dead or they would GER
tsinly have been down here to see the 800
brave Iowaus lying wounded at Cassvi!le.-
A reputation for acting as ministeripg
Angels" though very eheop'y .con, may
perhaps wreathe ths brows Of its leaders
with unfading laurels al home, but the army
Of the South. west valucs II q. Just what il
is worth. | an not speaking 30 light Of
these I" Patriots for. any ipattention 10
myself or my command, but l cannot help
being deeply interested ia the welfare and
efficiency Of our little army, and there is no
surer way to d,mpen its ardor, and shrke
its faith 10 tho sympathy Of its friends At
home, than this neglect Of its wounded in
battle.
The Iowa boys have already won for our
young State iDperishabIs renown; and in
the future, wherever bravery il Recognized
and valued, The wide world over, 40 Iowan
win be welcome. Osr troops, With Iowa
pluck, viii emerge from ono battle to enter
another, until the dead aud wounded GI up
the roll Of regiments. But IL the bullets of
the enemy strike them from the Lists Of ac-
tive service, God forbid that they should
strike them from the mem ories OF the men
and women for whom they vent out TO 6ghs.
You think I am gloomy, and draw too
dark . picture. Cons 20 Cassville, pass
through the wards and see your wounded
soldiers dying By inches; 60 10 the burial
ground, and zee the needless graves yawn-
ing each day Tor fresh Victims Of neglect,
and you viii paint yoor own picture, and
make is % dark - to starsls your readers,
100. Perhaps | have said soossh the sob
jecs demands. plain language, and have
Used it.
What . grand bssbeg that vss 70 send
nail scross the eootioeps By the Butter
seld roa,s, whes sassrs bsd nade one 20
much better. 1wosder more sscidents did
20. bappes On sbsss terrible roads. Well,
ssrposs, gsisg oct Of The say 500 nilss,
through rough, bsrbsroos eoussry, Just
70 favor political psss, is sbeus ssplsyed
oss" 10 this gossrsseat, sad vhss osr
great sasiosai shorssghfsre, wedding the
oceans With iron basds, i bails, its snGi.
sssrs viii b sssdssss of aassys, inssssd 81
rail fesee politics. Il : seessssrJ, how
ever, 70 Do seassbisg for this God fsrsshss
cossssy, y sslighsss tie people. The
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