The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1862-02-01
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DEaR EpiroR :-So We are sqfely geing
70 move al last. Ills jasfdl nkngs 20 Us.
xso hass Bern syins Asss month Nses month
saitisg, ana hopin. and praying ios sn IA
vance. Ii Win not IS ssoser the Casconade
eand back to Rolh,'' this time, ws feel sure
shal the ioag, long delay xhIsa has made
rhe army chat and ftet, and 1ambss doubt
lshe etseiency, ST shs loyalty 8of us leaders.
IL o-cf, and the mighty armanenss ty sea
snalapd,, s~hSch have been s,casiN gather,
ing vo.ame ard power, rsnox 70 be hnsl-
ed ID an isresis.ibls avalanche upon the
Soath, crushing and annihi!atfns treason,
The world IL settirg cld, and many blood.
drama has Been enacted on its stage, the
death x<appae' wi,A this gisns rebellion, may
be biuodir thar any slhss hs yiyAss been
seen bls1. sstffbfs aivna msy bs, ii
will -bs short. Come itmnst, let Il come
quickly. A great battle will strike from i,fe's
muster roll, the names of ten thousand pa
triots, and send p burning into more than
ten thousand homes, but let the sun rs it
s.eops 70 the Alleshanies Tomorrow night,
shine on an American sslvateflso'' with Is
thir:y ihoesaod slain, and As ssriekeu ones
,hepe, though husbands and sons and broth.
ers lie piled among tho dead, viii sxslain,
thaak Gsd, our lsaasrs are in ccrness, oar
Country is safe. The roads in ythis wild
issola,ed country are uneondi.ionally sbom-
inable, NOW, and the transportation wagons
will siye the mud such o charming, that will
make, a continuous morterg bed along The
whole line of march. !. is,awrstehed time
to move here, bu. weare glad 70 90, % mat
ter what the roads, OF the wnther may be
We will have to leave some Of the boys
behind, nearly all of these have got fur
loushs for so days, and will 50 home tore.
cruit theu; strength. ia,s6s gasa I'd rr}s
Many will 50 with Us, who are hardly dit
to start out On . tramp, bat We will take It
easy at first, say ten miles day, gradually
increasing to ffteen and twsaty. Those Who
can stand it for the FIRST three or four days,
can Iarch to New Orleans, and march
right down through ,rebeldom..to that par,ic-
ular city, would crafty Us very much, but
Price who has been playing ''hide and seek" seeki
around through the brush for, the last five
months, is at Springfield, with oonsldsra-
bic force, perhaps ten thousand, it may be
more, tits probably less, He viii stay there
suppose till we caase him Of, so perhaps
We viii hare to trudge ou. .ha. way, seven,
ty-fve or hundred miles, before we set
our faces South. Our friends peed not
stop writing Us, letters ia Camp area per-
feet God send; and il while on the march We
get only one in ten Of those that are written
it will do US enough good 70 paythe writer.
Let all the letters be directed a. heretofore,
and they viii DO forwarded to Us. Col.
Dodge is recovering rapidly from bis wound
and viii 60 with us, and believe bis heroic
wife has more than half mind to 20 too
We think that The hardships attending a
march nthis wretchcd country, ase too grea.
for n delicate wUtitan to suffer, bu, every
man who appreciates bravery and devotion,
will say, hurrah for the woman who viii
brave the trials, and perils Of winter cam
paign, to be with her husband. We bashs-
lors along the line think such . wife is
worth having. Capt. Ssciglemau Of tho
rebel army, was sent to St. Louis, in irons
this morning, be is the scoundrel who at
tempted to blow up the railroad train on
this road last summer, and ought to be shot.
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