Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-06-20
Communicated.
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
Letter from the Camp.
Grn No G MIScrSsIDpI
june I'd, 1862.

CAMP No. s, MISSISSIPPI, !
June I'd, 1862.
Mr.. E1itor:-For busybody, I think
have left you alone for long time
| But lust now | am in the notion, from
some reason OF other; so you may expect
considerable in quantity, if not much in
quality.
Just about now you acknowledgements
ant yankees are astonished at the
evacuation of Corinth-Corinth. where
we all supposed the ''last ditch, in
which our Southern friends intended to
perpetrate the "happy dispatch" and
do all manner of things, rendered neces-
sary by the fire in the Southern heart,
was dug. (There-I came very near
loosing the ditch.) But one man, as
yet, in our whole army, has accounted
for it; and that is jolly old Col. Worth
ington, of the 46th Ohio, who told the
boys that we "out-camped' them at
Manassas, and "out t-fortihed" them at
Corinth. I do not know anything
about Manassas, but I presume we ac-
tually did "out- -fortify" them here.
Perhaps a brief description of our ad
vance from Shiloh to Corinth may be
interesting. The left wing, under com
mand of Cen. Pope, moEed from Ham
burg, six miles above Pittsburg; the
center, under Buell., and right, under
Thomas, advanced from Shiloh, and
moved the first day about five miles
Here we rested till our Generals recon
noitered, and then moved again. Al
our third move we began building
breastworks, and SO from the 29th day
of April till the seth day of May.
! We moved upon the enemy, and oul
troops in the advance, had the pleasure
If it can be called such--of driving
the enemys pickets back, and working
between times at breastworks. Many 6
night could be heard the ringing of the
ak, and the crack of falling timber, as
our men faithfully pursued their work
! Indeed, so much work have our boys
accomplished, that they sometimes cal
themselves "DenEer's Breastwork Brig
ade." And Gen. Sherman, in general
order, com oliments them for the alacrity
with which they few from the gun tt
the spade, as the occasion demanded.
List Wednesday, marching orders
were received, and it was supposed tina
the grand battle was to begin. Ou1
Division advanced to within half milt
of the rebels outer tier of breastwo ks
and went to work out ,fortitying then
again. But they could not do it undis
tarbed. Repeatedly they had to e,
from the spade to the musket; but thu
fight only interested the pickets, till fo
the fifth time during the advance, ou
men had out fortified them, and thi
tine in sight of their breastworks, ane
so close that eur shells went beyond
Corinth.
Now am-only describing the advanc
Of the right wing; but it must be reooi
J leeted that the. center. and .left wing
were doing just the same-fg ghtiag AM
working into the vicinity of the CeriR
theans.
E AS we have no such things as settle
ments OF localities here, we named, Gu
camps Nos ], q, 3, &C., tillwe are nov
in Camp No 8, Mississippi Woods, Cor
inth in our possession, and all quiet OIL
, the Tennessee.
On Friday morning quite early, Will
, sitting on our brsastworks at Camp No
F Z, talking with the boys of the 7th Obi
Battery, was startled by one explosio
after another, of something resembling
cannon, only being too numerous and to-
successfully repeated to be exactly can
non either, / thought OF course eve
rybody listened, and looked, ,aad wer
r repaid by seeing dense smoke aris
from abous where Corinth ought to be
. Much speculation arose as to the caus
of AN this uproar. Some said Pope wa
pouring into them; others declared tha
Buell. was 'sdoing Of it, as friend {
: mine in Salem says; some shook thei
, heads, and looked wild, but said not
word; and some even hinted at eyacus
' ton, but they were told to s.dry up
a "evacuation was played out. y
D It was we'll known that the rebels ha
been very impudent during the nigh
attempting to drive our pickets back
their brcastworks, and We (lhe cripple
f and rsserves) we'll knew that our troop
a were going to move forward as soon a
/ they could get breakfast and goo
! ready. Consequently, all was anxiet
and suspense. Every moment we ez
pected to hear OR big guns, and ar.i
q lery, and musketry open upon the strong
, hold of rebeldom. But we listened il
vain. "All was quiet on the Teanes
see.' Every galloping eavalryman-
every new conner from the advance, wa
interrogated, but to little purpose. A
/, last Brigade of Gen. a1cLernand
e Division came off of picket, having bee
e out four days, to the right of Corintl
on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. an