Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-22
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are pleased to state. says the Evansville Journal
of yesterday, that all the officers of the 25th reg
pipaent are safe aud sound The numerous friends
OF the 18th win learn with great satisfaction that
the boys are safe, although they bore glorious
part in the great victory of the 10Th.
The following is published in the Chicago
Tribune purporting to have been seut by Major
General Hslleck TO the Commander in Chief OF
the army, in reply to the dispatch Of thank. sent
by the latter to the officers and troops who cap
turcd Fort Henry:
To MAJOR General Mcclellan:
have communicated your thanks 10 General
Grant. Flag Officer. FoOte and fheir commands
and they bad me say they should be glad of an
opportunity 70 send similar thanks. for like ser
vice. To you. H. WAerR HaLIEcK
The Terre Haute Express Of Yesterday.
says: ta.f
We have been permitted to take the following
statements from private letter from DIR. Thomp
son. Surgeon OF the l1th Indiana He says the
llth Indiana did noble work They stood up un-
deF CALLING hse like veterans. and carried t,eir
positions with great courage< The regiment lost
four killed and quite number wounded. lie
states as FAR as he knows. none were killed who
went from this place. Lieutenant McMullen re
ceved slight wound on the knee, and had his
coat-tail of by a grape shot. Captain Hamil
very slightly wounded. Many memb ers of
the regiment made hair breadth escapes
Carroll county has expended over 81 900 for
the benefit OF the families OF volunteers T.. X.
Davis. the efficient County Auditor has iii sbursed
the entire sum. Saturday of each week is devoted
to this purpose.
Fremont madea clear case before the Inves
tgatng Committee. and is in high favor at the
White House and at the War Department.
Baldwin j. Crosswait, Lieut. Colonel of tie
4th Indiana regiment. died at his residence in
Steuben county.
Nine hundred and twenty FIVE of the Fort
Donelson prisoners. including forty officers, ar
rived at St Louis, on the steamer Gladiator. on
Wednesday night. route for Indianapolis.
-Rations have been contra 81 for the food OF
the 900 rebel prisoners to be confined at camp
Douglas. near Chicago. st IL T.. cents per diem.
The Tribune says that this is he cheapest rate
known in the United States, and also that the
quality will be equal the best any where issued.
- GusBoar FLEEr.-The gunboats at Cairo
want able bodied them. One hun
cred and fifty men will be accepted if they offer
themselves at once. Eighteen dollars per month
pay every two months Enlistment one year
unless sooner discharged.
The 25th Indiana regiment, Col. Veatch
and the lltlI, Col. Mct5nnis are both spoken OF
in terms of high praise for their gs.ilantry and
brave conduct at the battle of Fort Donelson
The dispatches have not mentioned any other In
diana regiments as having been engaged in the
conflict. There were, however, doubtless several
others, which have not yet been reported. The
3lst and 18th are supposed to have been there, rs
also the Railroad regiment, all of which we pre-
sumo will be heard from SOON.
The remains of the son Of Rev. W II. Jack
son, who was a member of Bridgland's cavalry,
and who died suddenly in Kentucky few days
since. have been taken to Paol for interment.
Major Prosser sent twenty-six recruits to
Madison yesterday. for Col Mullen's regiment,
(the ID Irish) Recraitug for this regiment is
going rapidly.
= The Noble County Journal says that Zion
ID. Weston. of Rome. in that county, sutler to
the Goth Indiana regiment. is supposed to have
been robbed and killed at Louisville, Ky, ON
Sunday night. the 9th of January. He had on
the day before, drawn some four thousand dollars
from the army Paymaster for suffers stores fur
nlshed the soldiers. He went out from his hotel
on Sunday evening after supper since which time
nothing has beeu heard of him. 1t is supposed
that at the time he was missed he had about his
person nearly FIVE thousand dollars.