Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-08-06
from charley Harmon.
MURFREESBoRo, Tenn,
,Iulv 10 1850

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July 10, 1862.
ChroHicLc Frcsds:-A telegram at mid
night to Headquarters make It's at , o'cl'k
Monday morn, from oursummer quarters
to "A forced march amid dust. hot sun and
no water. The day took us to the cars at
Reynolds Station, where fourteen hun
dred bales OF cotton awaited t~ransporta-
ton north. soon we were at Nashville.
en- route. one car smashed up, killing an
artillcrest. badly wounding a 9th Ohio
X man and sending me a Somersault of
forty-two feet over a bridge into a creek.
without sight of apparent harm, although
scared somewhat to see that four inches
either way would have ended nv soicr-
ing.
Yesterday, the fifth day, Gen. Nelson
on nearing this point. advanced the 9th
O., Il, j and F as skirmishers) and at
l2:5j p. ", we swept by the Court house
taking possession of the place without 4
shot, though threatened that Brecken-
ridge had four thousand men to clean Us
out with. | bagged IL wounded Adiutant
ist Georgia Cavalry. lac will help to ex-
change for an officer whom they would
not parole last Sunday, when they took
three of our regiments prisoners, also a
battery of four guns. Two of our weak
regiments camped in the town were ut
terly surprised early last Sunday by three
cavalry regiments, who then moved north
of the town on the Sd Minnesota, "a good
strong regiment, who was ready to make
them pay for what they got. A lively
rally for an hour lost us but two men,
whilst forty-eight dead sesh showed that
the Minnesota boys were doing good work
supported by the battery. The sesh
demanded a surrender or no quarter. At
noon the Colonel of the Sd under q flag
visited his brigade commander captured
in bed) and n surrender was agreed to
against tie en- maSse wiShes Of the men. 1t
was represented that the sesh had six
thousand, but they only had three caval-
ry regiments, and the Sd Lin. could on
that ground and with their artillery have
/ think, driven the sesh back, or at least
have covered a good retreat. A surren-
der was a disgrace to the manhood of the
rank and file who sheuldered their guns
10 fight, not to surrender or ''evacuate."-
This Minnesota regiment was the best
body of men have seen. Their Surgeon
told me last winter that they would aver
age the owners of a farm each. They are
what l call the independent self-depend-
ent masses. Such are the bone and sin
wv of our land.
Saw John futile at Nashville, is well,
L.. c. Smith there too, looks right, but a
mile march uses him up. Manly is fee
BILE, Capt. Weston was not able to join us
-Lattimer and Barron both at Louisville
not quite ready to join. have Sea
graves under my own eye, he is getting
well fast. Corpl Drake 1 advised to drop
out of ranks and stay back at Nashville.
Lockwood not as strong as he should be,
Ewing all right, 50 are Musser, Smiley,
Robbins, Short, Hill, (of New Jersey
Burnet and Bill Olmstead.
The raids in Ky. and here last week,
do not scarce affect the main armies
The sesh can always make them az long
as we allow citizens to pass the outposts
of our interior forces. Subject every body
from fha a1vonoa f.1rk - I'LL l.
our rear on the Ohio river, to the order,
mo citizen to pass the advance posts"
Then 10 one from here would have car
ried word to Meanwhile, (35 miles, that
we had but one whole and two skeleton
regim ents, and that 'here was a picket
of four, there of ten, yonderof two, then
yonder was a clear to town"
In sixty days after half of thenew lev
les take the field, the war will be over,
else we have no General at our head
Southern Tennessee has a heary crop of
growing cotton. May it be picked amid
the jubilee of the bond are going free,
and the looms of the North with her many
workshops resound to the hum of busy
labor, peace smiling throughout the land.
CHAS. R. HARMON.
P. S.-5lst Just in-Dr. Woodwork
looks remarkably well and manly. DR..
Ames of Orwell, isat the hospital in town
in o. h. condition. We rough it in the
bush without tents or blankets or over
coats. Had rains the last four nights
My Adj't turns u a former Capt. U. s..
A. and immensely wealthy.