Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1862-10-15

Witness, ye six Captains and six Lieutenants
who scorned to fly with or without orders,
though well knowing the penalty would be
no mention of name or act other than the
brief allusion above written; how it is posi-
bic for man to be So heartless as to merely
say: losing at this point, however (how-
ever ,olatO in addition to our killed and
wounded, I6O men, and large number of
officers" &c.
"He rides race, he carries weight" &C
The Colonel forgets his vocation. The Re
port is evidently considered from a Sitryi-
cal-BaH- Ran stand point, He has reverted,
instinctively, to old professional habits, The
preservation of human life was apparently
uppermost in his thoughts In witness where
Of his Report says: "We continued falling
back for about one and half miles. This
is not doubted; but at the same time few
thousand Indiana and two hundred 95th men
were hidden from his view in an encircIng
storm Of cannon shot and musketry.
Sanitary conditions considered, the point
selected for that battle field was not very
salubrious. The Colonel was right. Projec-
tiles were numerous, and the list shows great
casualties. If7he israpid in noting premoni-
tons Of danger in the present encampment
as he was in the famous retrograde move
ment on the battery, he win discover, by the
diagnosis, that the atmosphere in that vicin-
age is breathed by too many of the ill-lated
95th men to make respiration pleasant
The ColoneTs ill-starred anxiety for distinc-
lion, which caused him to importune the au-
thorities for leave to take his regiment to the
field; the same manifestation at Lexington,
KY, resulting in Gen. WaIlace's order to
move forward to meet the enemy at Rich
mond, when not one half the men knew their
fsld officers, and company officers hardly
knew each other by sight, and the regiment
had neUsr had battalion drill The inhuman;-
ty to the sick-the brutality to the we'll
such as knocking men down with his fist
striking them with hssword, drawing pistols
on them, and coming it la Nelson over
them generally, winding up by arresting the
whole Quartermaster's Department at once;
and, the morning of the battle, putting the
of5oer Of the dag and other officers under ar
reat For these, and other reasons, to be
held in general execration, his men are utter
ly demoralized, and lost to the service, under
lis command Then to print report not
required by the regulations, (and if he could
have given correctly three words of COM
mand, consecutively.- would have known it;)
in which injustice is done to men and Off
GERS through petty feelings of envy. All these
matters conspire to bring forth reply which
shall truly represent sentiments nearly atpanli-
NOUS, prevailing in the regiment, and to do
the regiment the justice which can alone be
done by a court martial or by this publication.
The writer has sought to do it without fear
or favor, for he has weighed the consequence
es aud viii abide by them for the sake Of all
those men, from whom he now parts with |
regret who, whether officers or soldiers, fight
ing in the first battle OF through them al,
whether carrying swords or muskets, in all
our intercourse never once forgot that they
were gentleman, ereT.