Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-18
Letter from the Guthries.
CAMP WrcKL1rFR, KY, January IA

CAMP W1oKLlFFE, KY, January IA.
By some hook or crook we don't receive
reading matter here as regularly as we did
in Virginia. If you could only take peep
into my tent after get a copy of the Press,
you would be sstonished at the esgernes dis
played by the boys TO hear what's going on
at home. l always read aloud, and if by
chance the paper fails to reach me, which,
assure you, is often The case, general gloom
settles on the faces of the entire mess. We
have had several additions to this camp
during the past week, which will have the
effect to increase the number of brigades,
and consequently more Brigadier- Generals
will be needed.
Colonel Hszen, of the Forty.frst Ohio
will, with his regiment, and two or three
others, form a brigade, which he will com
mand. The Forty first has been unfortunate;
and has had at one time three hundred of its
members down with the measles. The
| Thirty-sixth Indiana has also suffered greatly
| from this disease. The "Grays' have been
more fortunate, and at the present time there
| is not single member Of our regiment sick
with the measles. Our camp is horribly
muddy, ard the men are almost afraid to
| leave their tents from fear they can never
reach them again. The boys have been
| fishing with long poles for a four mule
transportation wagon, which went down in
the mud yesterday and has not been seen
| since.
Our Quartermaster has Sibley tents in his
possession, which he intends giving US just
as soon as the camp ground is dry; the boys
are jubilant over the change, for we are
heartily tired of the bell tents, which are al
best but an Indifferent article.
had the pleasure of sleeping, night Of
tTo o since, with the water dripping in mJ
face. am cold-water man, and love i
in preference to other beverages, but prefel
resting at night without having it dropping
on my face.
An order was read yesterday on dres
J parade that all blankets under regulation
weight should be returned to the Quarter
master, and he would furnish US with full
weight articles. So much of General Buel
2 Another order was that all traffic disposed O
? | by the Sutler was TO be sold at custOmar
prices, each article to be valued by th
Lieutenant Colonel and Major, who are t
make list of the things offered for sale
= annexipg the rate thereto and giving III
A | same prominent position, SO that all sol
diers may see for themselves how muc
they are required to pay for any article tn
Sutler may have.
We almost had two tragedies yesterday i
camp. The first occurred between two mem
ters of our regiment, who began quarreln
> about trifling matter, when one of ther
: stabbed the other with huge Bowie knit,
The wound, however, will not prove fata
The other almost tragedy occurred at nigh
. in the Twenty fourth Ohio Regiment, ju:
t after "tattoo." One of the men had been ou
: on picket guard and returned drunk. A
h alteration ensued between him and th
camp guard relative to the countersign, whe
. the drunken picket guard fired upon his al
f versary, who returned the fire with two shot
8 from his revolver. Fortunately neither ws
, injured, the night being very dark. Th
picket guard was immediately placed undt
II arrest, and the next day the man who ha
J. sold him whisky was brought into camp an
n received two dozen lashes and dismissed.
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