Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-03-27

in command for the GOODNESS and bravery
manifested in these actions. This is Ger.
tainly very Aattering, but is not sufficient to
make us forget that we have also been sub
jected to much labor and exposure, and yet,
to the credit Of our men it should be said,
there has been no complaining or fault find
ing among them.
There has been but little done since the
evacuation Of New Madrid, except to
strengthen our position at Point Pleasant,
seven miles below here, to which point there
has been sent = large addition of cannon and
men. We have now Commodore Foot above
twelve miles bouibarding the enemy, who.
with ten steamboats, and a large part Of the
troops and munitions of war removed from
Columbus, are between his forces and this
point, and completely cutoff from all retreat
by river; and the g%uuboats that were driven
from this point are lying below here and cut
off by the batteries erected at Point Pleas
ant SO that, unless their stealing and run
ming capacity prove too much for Yankee
ingenuity, some Of them, before many days,
will be deprived of "their rights" and the
glorious privilege Of dying in the last
ditch"
Accompanying this you will find a letter
written by the editors of the Memphis APP
peal to Gen. JEFF. Thompson, and found in
the fort at New Madrid, requesting the
earliest copy Of Pres. ~ Lincoln's Mes
sago-whioh may be secured by your This
adventurous pickets, who, we learn never
fail to get what they want" IF tho manner
in which they Travelled from st. John
Lake to New Madrid on the approach o
our army is any evidence of their ordinar!
capacity to get over the ground, and thei
getting capacity in other respects is equal
} we think the Editors of the Appeal ar
right, and these pickets never fail to &c
, what they want. There were u number G
+, letters found in the fort partly written. On
:, by a volunteer to his wife, which is perhar
a very fair index to the feelings of the
army on the day and night of the bombart
d ment and evacuation, read as follows:
"M dear wife | write to bid you far
d well forever, a. | have no hope that ! sha
ever sec you again, for during the past pigl
the Yankees erected their batteries within
very short distance of our fort and con
menced this morning, the first intimatiC
we had of their presence, to shell us wit
their siege gun and mortars, and they ha'
us so surrounded by their large force tn
we have no hope of escape"
t. The epistlc was cut short, and it is NJ
ascertained whether its writer died witho'
''hope Of escape" or whether he, under Il
re direction Of his running masters" b.
" been headed towards home, aud the hol
n of seeing bis wife re-kindled in his despai
az ing bosom by the electric speed by whit
mr. he increases the distance between himst
m and the Yankee s%urroundcrs.
il, The men in Company D are generally
he well and enjoying themselves adnirabl,
n There issome difficulty in getting.rations (
I'd them, owing to certain tape arrangement
OF that make the procuring of subsistence
ty rather round about affair. There has be
We no suffering, however, as yet, and the pc
:" ers that be promise better things for t
ior time to come.
IT. The sick who were sent home from
hit company have their farloughs extended
,ro two months more, so that they need I
sis come after the Regiment for the present.
n It il quite probable that VIZ shall lie,
ut this place as soon as the ~gunboats arr
We from above, and steer our course Sou
ID. ward, no