Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-11-12


CAsp A. OsAos sraux0s.l
Aekansaa, Nov. l, 1883. }
You zee what presumption It is TOR q
private 10 the rear rank to say anything
about even what has been done 10 the
army. 10 my last letter, dated at Fay
etteville, / told you that q further I'D.
vance had been secured, and said that
our next march would naturally be on
Boston Mountains. Well, ~ If to show
that I was mistaken on both points, 10
,ess than twelve hours from the time |
wrote that letter We made retsograds
march which at once disappointed our
cancellations about finding the rebels 10
their most redoutable stronghold 10 thi.
vicinity, and reDiuquished the advance
which We fondly hoped was . perms-
nent one. In word, l suppose that
the march on Fayetteville was one Of
those most provoking things, recon-
noisance in force, of which you see SO
much in the papers now.a-days-ln
which, when the General in command
wishes to know the state Of things 10 .
certain place, he packs mp every thing
and starts of, gets TO the desired local.
y-if he can-looks about him, and
,hen-turns around and comes back,
"having fully accomplished the objects
Of the expedition" In any case, are
came back on Thursday, leaving M. &.
Nicely, Thomas Grant, Thomas N: Gran
fell, Sullivan HUT, and l.. A. Hawley
there, too sick to be moved. Isunpose
that by this time the rel'els have re-
turned and on a small scale ra'd u. 10
our twn coin for taking ana pa!oine
something ike one tur-ied OF 'ne'l SICK
whom We found 10 the'r nosp'ta's az
that Mace. In mat event they will
probably be We, cared for and exchanged
as soon "a nlcy are well. On our re-
,urp her, we were reioined by John K.
S,,st,,o, w. J. l.. Hunt and John W..
Rcnlne, whom we had lett behind at
Cassvlle, ! believe. They we're fully
recovered, and reported Lieut.. Brooks,
Isaac Patterson aud Augustus Redding
still at Csssville and doing we'll. But
two of our best boys, viz: Andrew J.
Lindsay and Aeron =. Lambert, have
found, the first on the 18th, al Cassville,
tho other on the 9th, at Springfield,
Mo-, that last resting place to which We
are all marching God rest their souls T!
may as well finish the sad story o.
death 10 the regiment, 80 far as | know
1t, here. Lieut.. Taylor, Of Go. X, died
at Cassv'lIe the other day. | had be-
come somewhat acqua ntcd with him
by having sung with him good many
times, and ] have heard HIM address
HIS fellow soldiers at prayer meeting. l
regarded him as an tstimabIe man, and
| believe he died AS the Christian dieth.
Corporal Lewis Reipe, company X,
died very sudden here yesterday after
noon. The regiment had been through
the ceremony of general IN 1ster; he was
IN his place and answered to bis name ;
an hour after he was dead "a victim to
one of the numerous diseases which
follow in the wake Of measles. Chris
Cook, company +, and a man whose
name | have not learned, of company |,
each shot himself in the hand or hands.
by accident, at Fayetteville. l hear
they both have iurloughs and are going
home. Aside from these cases, ! believe
the health Of the regiment is improving.
| know that the sick of company -
are one after another reporting them.
selves for duty, and there are no new
cases on the doctors list from this COM
pany. John Jennings makes a most
admirable nurse, and l guess he don't
find his place to be sinccure.
am done with specializing about
what we are likely to do; it isu't sure
way to earn a good Repatriation as a
prophet, but from all l can learn we
simply cannot stay very Iorg in this re-
gion. There is no forage to be had
near here, and this fact alone will neces-
state an advance or q retreat before
long. | hope ,ha: we shall 60 ahead,
but | know nothing. One thing is v-ry
certain, it will go against the grain OF
the boys to make a single backward
step. There is, however, this one con-
sollng thought about it if we cannot
support an army here, neither can the
rebels. We will have eaten the coun-
try up in little while.
We hear to-day that the buttcrnute
have stopped and robbed two of our
mails. This will account for the non ar
rival Of many letters and papers. for a
mail to this army is no small affair, you
must know; it fiIls an army wagon,
am told, and | guess it does, if every
company gets as many letters and pa
pers as company d. We are we'll re-
membered A. home, thank God! But
don't let thought hinder any from writ.
ing often, if you only could know
how we hunger and thirst for news
from home. THOMAS.
The Indian Devastation IN Minnesota.
A writer in the St. Petcr Tribune.
who has recentlV Travelled +. ver rho conn.