Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-10-29

every thing before them This move
: ment was prepared for and n this ex
tended line bore on, mass oi our owl
soldiers lying do behind the crest of
glacis, rose and fired with terrible effec
creating confusion scarcely equaled b,
the same movement when executed OIL
the field of Waterloo.
Gen. Van Dorm, who sat on his hors,
looking grimly on is said to have exclaim
ed That Is one of Rosecrans tricks II,
has got Price where he must suffer-
The rebel chief judged rightly, for from
that hour the rebel hosts were but a mas
OF flying fugitives. In their fight they
were intercepted at a crossing of the
| Hatchie by Gen. Hulburt's Division who
engaged them for several hours. The 18th
Battery under Capt Spear of your place
took part in this attack, firing about
eighty rounds TO each gun As ] know
nothing about the part they took save
from a Munchausen account of one OF
the privates of that Battery, | am not
able to speak,,of them farther. Gen. HUI
burt is said TO have been greatly pleased
with their conduct.
The rebels were pursued for week
when. by order of Gen. Grant, the pursuit
was discontinued-for what reason am
unable to conceive Some fatality seems
to forbid our following up the advantages
of victory and making it a complete
success. cannot recall an exception to
this rule.
The above contests hvae resulted in the
killing. wounding and demOralization of
twenty thousand rebels, with loss on
our part of not above one fourth that
number. Active movements might now
secure us Mississippi, Northern Alabama
and East Tennessee, but it seems more
likely that the time viii be frfttered
away
The Presidents Proclamation is hailed
with general delight, ,and meets with uni
versal approval 1t marks an era i'll the
national life from which race imbruted
by the servitude of two centuries will date
their advance from chaltelization to man
hood. The Nation itselfhavihg sloughe,i
off this incubus upon its civilization. its
every good thing in fact-will take lis
proper place as the greatest of the nation
of the earth, and become in deed . well
as in name the Model Republic
Four millions of taxpayers will now
aid in lessening the burdens Of taxation.
Four millions of Produces Of exports and
consumers of home productions and man
ufactures will now add their earnings to
the sum total of national welth Who
cannot see in this change for the better?
Concerning the opponents of this
and there are such mullet heads
in the army. | will add q few words by |
way of description. They are usually of
that mouldy, conservative class of poll I
ticians OF the hard shell persuasion, |
known aosfssils They are free to exclaim |
Il didn't enlist To fight for niggers." -
This is a damned Abolition war" To all /
reply, Damn a Niger ANYHOW. /
This is with them the clincher-the
knock down argument. The above ex-
are full inventory of their
political effects
They are, with rare exceptions, encased .
n a shell ofselfshness so thick that their
Tision scarcely extends beyond their own
with moral sense so blunt
Is to make them mistake the cholic pains
IF incipient dyspepsia, arising from their
'wn greediness, for twinge of conscience.
f they worship any thing it is a Trinity,
,ut unlike heSouthern Deity ofthe Eagle.
he Dollar, and the Cent, the individu-
Ilities of their Godhead are, l. Me and
Myself. Though noisy, they are but a
fractional and uninfuential part of the
rmy who may be safely allowed to vent
heir spleen and play the part of puppies
'arking at the moon.
In this connection it may not be out of
lace TO allude to the niger. Mr.. Mig /,
conscious of his agency in the war, and ,
eldom speaks of it without display of
is worries and a ''yah YAH" or Xxi Vi"
hey are employed by the hundred in the
rmy as Cooks, Teamsters &C., while great
angs are working in bodies as Sappels,
nd Miners, builders of earth works &c
# one time half the negroes in this Co..
'ere ordered into this place to erect !
arth works. The result of their labor is !
lown in some two or three miles of for I
fcations with hundreds of acres of fallen q
'ees TO enable the Artillery to get good /
lnge on any attacking force. Had they r
cen thus employed before Corinth, it '
ould have saved our army, an immense $
mount of eXhausting labor as well as I
reat loss of life. | sometimes think it G
ould have wholly turned the scale in our ;
yor. 7
The negroes are greatly given to mirth, b
Iusic and dancing. and give great n
to the soldiers. Patting Juba y
a common diversion. One Will beat "
me by striking his hips, thighs and breast c
hile he chants some rude ditty, and an
her dances jigs or shuffles in accord to
lis wild music. | subjoin few verses of il
lese Plantation melodies, which are usu- n
ly descriptive of slave life. h
''Old massa buy old Nafle, n
Old Nafle run away, l.
When massa buy old Nafie IL
Better git old Nafle stay" b
I'll take my things to Baltimore TO Baltimore, 81
/ III sell my things in Baltimore, in Baltimore
Ill get de cash in Baltimore. in Baltimore,
Oh! Baltimore, Baltimore.
Sambo and Cuffee are given to the tender 81
lssion, and the charms of dusky Susans z
Id Dinahs are chanted in verses that =
ten breathe great tenderness. Here is :, =
Ie opening verse of one such. !! y
Oh honey oh honey. = :.
I'm gwine way TO leave you; u
Oh honey, amt You sorry
lse gHine way to leave you. .s
As the songs are accompanied by some n,
rt of pantomine their effect is greatly o,
creased. In the limits of "a single letter b
cannot even touch upon the points
,ened to view by this class of people,
Id will abruptly close.
An order has recently been issued by
e War Department, reducing the num- d
II of officers in Batteries most righte- al
Is order which should have been enforced Ii
ng ago. 1t will free the service of a Il