Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1862-12-24
CAMP CORRESPONDENTS.
FROM THE rHraTIgTH REeIMlNT.
CANT RANDALL, MADISON, Wis,
December IA, 1862.

you, nothing of peculiar interest in Camp
has TRANSFERRED to please or amuse us; but
a few statements of facts, rs to tho health
and general interest Of CO. f, may not
fail to please the many readers Of your
paper.
This Sabbath is sad one here q
feeling of loneliness pervades the Camp,
and veil of sadness seems to hang at
the Threshold of every heart.
Death has again knocked at the door
Of our camp home and demanded the
spirit Of one of our most promising and
best Of comrades.
CoRwIN GREeoRY was one of the best
Of soldiers; ever good-natured and friend
ly, he has never failed to win tho warm
est sympathics and friendship of every
man in the company. He had been in
the hospital but three days before he
died. Yesterday morning, about seven
o'clock, Chaplain Green came down and
requested that We should go 10 the Hos
pital, as he feared CoRwIN was dying,
which vas tho first intimation we had
that he was dangerously i'll. He died
with apparent ease, md seemed to have
! his senses.
/ was too uuwell to follow in the pro-
cession to the grave; but while write
plninly hear theedul sound Of the muf-
fled drum as they beat the solemn march
to the soldiers grave, telling TINT another
spirit had been called from us.
The health of tho company, am sor.
~ to say, is in much worse state than
when | wrote you last. Severe colds
seem to be the prevailing disease; and |
should DE Of will to be discouraged,
but | am told that all other regiments,
at this season of the year. have been the
same.
Yesterday afternoon at Battalion Drill,
II men were all that could be mustered
in tho ranks, tho remainder being either
on guard or unfit for duty.
There are but seven companies Of the
30th Regiment now in Camp, Co. A be-
ing at Green Bay. and B and G at West
Bend, where we left them two weeks
ago, to collect the draftot! n1en together
presume you have often, in reading
of engagements where some companies
have went into The field with fifty or six
ty men, asked the question why COM
paniss Of hundred men were not able
To get ont with greater number. |
have often heard the question asked, and
it can 10 plainly answered by giving q
copy of some morning repor. to head
quartz ;.
Take, for instance, COMPANY of nine
ty men, seventeen of whom are in the
morning detailed fof guard, leaving them
seyenty-three men, out of which say
twenty -four report themselves sick--some
lame, and others playing lame, which
makes up the above number, and often
many moro. This leaves the number
reduced to fifty nine, out Of which tho
cooks, wood and water detail is made,
leaving tho number still smaller. | said
some play sick | t seems to be con-
mon thing for some, after living in Camp
some time, living well, with but Tito
hard labor to perform, they seem to be
come endowed with spirit Of disincli-
nation to do duty, and report themselves
as sick, and are marched off to the Sur
geons for examination.
A good joke, | understand, was play
ed few days ago on man in some
other company, by Surgeon Hoyt. whose
skill and long practice enables him to
tell case Of rheumatism from the mea-
sizes readily. The patient had been cupp-
ed on the knee the morning before. but it
had failed to cure him of his disease -
Consequently, when the Doctor examin-
ed him the next morning he pronounced
him very bad, and said he should have
to cup him all over, and began TO pre-
pare. at the same time telling him to
strip. This was more than he could
stand and backing up to the door, made
his exit, and with double-quick was
soon at his quarters, and considered
himself well enough to go into the
ranks. He has not been troubled with
the rheulus tism since.
You have heard ore this f the resig-
nation of our Captain, and thst our first
Lieut.. Meacham has been commissioned
in his stead.
Lieut. Strong anil our Orderly Serg't
Gum are now the LIST and 81 Lioutenants.
Serg,t Grant has been appointed Order.
" Sergt. LIST Corporal MeCarty rs Sd
Serg't, and Private Wiser as Corporal.
The changes appear TO give general sat
isfaction, and all goes on smoothly in mil
itary order.
feel as though I ought not close this
without speaking in praise of the d IL
gent attention and interest with which
the duties are performed in tho Sick De-
partment by the Surgeons and Rev. Mr..
Greene our Chaplain. Surgeon Hovt is
man who has had experience in the
service as we'll as practical physician at
home. At times he seems rough in his
ways; b after becoming acquainted
with his disposition and mode of treat
ment, no one would say but what he was
man of Judgment giving to the patient
his kindest attention and best of caro-
His assistants, Farr aud Baker, are no
less attentive. and their friendly sympa-