Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-11-28

uiiuu4sut u niOfe carry Tue next morning.
We tooE it as coolly as could be expected,
cooked rationS and did other necessary work,
and before day were ready for the road. We
passed through the village, Ieaviag many of
our brave fellows in hospital there and took
the road for Versailles with the other brigade
Of our diyisioB il the advance. the SD Ohis
leading Sur ewn. We passed some small
villages on the way, the most notable Of which
was keene, whose tread mill wheel took one
back many years in memory TO the time when
the last oae before was seen. The village
must have been thriving one some day, but
now even the waving of ladies' handkerchiefs
could not disguise lis secession procliyities, and
we did not wonder at its closed places of busi-
ness Our camp WAS two miles cut OF Yer
SALES in pleasant grove, where our Delaware
County boys were gladdeued by the sight of
visitors from home who there overlook US
The next morning We were On the way carly,
passing through town in our best style. Il is
indeed nice place, aud the sight of numerous
College buildings, of fine churches, good bust
uess places and other evidences of thrift were
reer has not been uDpros,ably spent, it must
b. confessed. To those Of Us whe have travel
ej with eyes and ears open it must ever he
pleasure to recount its scruery aua events in
the days 10 GENE when home ami home friends
shell greet us, asd the living it eer again"
will redCuble the pleasures. Let me briefly
recount this last march aad its incidents for
the eyes Of my friends to peruse when we are
again Oh the move.
Imprimis We were comfortably located
al Camp Price, as cur Nicholasville Camp
was called, and had just completed the various
fues and fire places there which a plenty of
limestone rendered feasible, and enc mess had
eve9ssat up an oven which was doing Il flour
hirg business the capacity Of most of the
tents of the men had been increased fifty per
cent bv a wall OF sod beneath them, making
them comfortable in the cool nights Of then 3;
wives ard children had been sent for and the
wants from home ordered forward; iu fact
everything fixed for long asd pleasant stay,
not more welcome than the sight of the Old
tag in The hands ef fair ladies, who wished Us
we'll on eur way. All dey we were on the
best pike We had yet seen. and the fine resi-
dences showed its advantages. 1t was plain to
be s>en that had portion OF the money sank
by US in defurct rail roads been spent on such
improvements as these we were to-day better
of. Especially when l thought of portions of
ny own cornty, where liRestone was close by,
could be hauled in summer and broke in wiz
ter, ard the depth of the SOL of which was
often found in winter hardy measurable by
wagon spokes, l could have read lecture on
economy.
How pleasantly looking We found the seen
cry about Frankfort your readers who have
correspondents in the Regiment well know
For miles the hills of the Kentucky river and
the little streams were visible with their spots
Of evergreen, and that improvement which
ever deno-es the approach to a city was ap-
parent. But when We approached close the
city passing by its new and beautiful Orphan
Asylum, and before the city itself was Wis ole,
the view seemed the best we had yet seem
True at Lexington the land was nicer, but
there it was plains while here il was hills on
which the cedars seemed to have been cultivat-
ed, 50 nicely were they rounded, even in the
woodland. Then as we came to he brow oi
the bill with tie State Prison bereath our feet
and a little valley beside our hill so little and
SO nice "a to suggest The idea Of pocketing i.
easily with the river visio'e also a little Et-
yond, and rear it the we'll known "srnoke
stack" putting the arrival Of train through
the tuapel alRost beneath u.s. and OYER the
track we had seen a place blasted fer but a
few miles back where we saw too the stars
aDd stripes over the Capital dome aRd knew q
the sceue of few weeks ago heneath where il
PraudIy floatcd ard with the city so nearly
unser us that it looked easy threwiny a stone
intSit, il was 10 wonder We thought il beau
tful, The glance was Of course brief oBe
while we were being thrown into sections. aud
then we narched down the hill. passing the
Stale Arsenal on the left, and, in town, tie
Capital House." the faest bui dirg in the
place, then across the bridge aud over the
riveE to our camping place. The next morn
ing saw Us on the road iOrg before the sun
lifted the frosty fog from our path. Eighteen
LAiles brought us about two O'Clock to a small
creek some three EHd a half miles from Shelby
Vile, which was our camp for the night.
Fridays march toak us through SheIDyvie
Our camp was this evening 10y the side o. a
small creek about fifteen miles frorn the ty.
twelve miles froE this city CD Saturday 5
march we passed through MddletowR. We
made march Of over Two miles through the
city, warmly greeted by many, but the best Of
all hy little three-year-Old boy, who hHrrah-
Cd for the Goth Ohio.
Whither we go from here is the great Camp
query LOW. Some say Vicksburg, some Mem
phi<, and We; Others that the train this week Of
eight hundred wagons for NashvilI is 10 be pro-
tcctad by our division. Not being more wise
than the rest your correspondent can only say
we are boand for the land Of D,xie-some-
where.
Our boys are seeing all here seeable, aad
feel well after the march. Yesterday was as
warm as September, and it seemed hardly pos
sble ii was nearly winter.
a FIRE in the city last evening lit up the sky,
and brought the fire bells OF Portland and
Louisville intO hearing.
No more this nOrning.
Fl. WARREN ALLEN