Nebraska advertiser., 1862-01-30
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE.
GEoRGETowE, Mo.
January 10, 1862.

ka regiment which it has travelled dur
in the past six months, the curiosity seek
err will find a road crooked and long,
leading over country hills and through
prairies undulating and even. He will
view it starting from St. 10. leading a.
cross the State to the city of Hannibal;
thence down the "Father of Waters, to
ST. Louis, and thence Southwest, over the
Iron Mountain Railroad to Pilot Knob;
where one can see frost IN the middle of
Summer. There the Regimet rests for
a month; thence it suddenly tacks back
to St. Louis, and on Northwest to SYRIA
cuse. Syracuse is its terminus for an
otner month after which it strikes off
southwardly towards Springfield, through
Warsaw, Quincy. Cole Camp. and Boil
var. Then, for the first time, the regi-
ment was on the march, and eager to
overtake the rebels, who were flying be-
fore US like gossamer threads in the
wind and then was the time when with
the Path Finder at our head, we hoped
to follow Price into Arkapsas, and drive
all the rebel hordes before US ever down
to Memphis and New Orleans, perhaps.
But our path did not lead so far ia that
direction that time, at a mere convenient
season we may go perchance. After be-
ing marshalled in battle array one even
ing with our faces toward Wilson's Creek.
where rumor had THE enemy were gath
ering invincible and strong, and after
our Colonel had spoken US a battle speech,
and all our hearts were braced with the
prospect Of meeting them in battle, in
which we would have a chance to show
the superiority of the prowess of the
Northman over the children Of the South,
our memorable path suddenly tackled back
again, and we left our camping GROUND,
made historical by The famous charge of
Maj Zagonyi's men a week or more ere
we arrived upon it. 1t was a glorious
sight in and around Springfield during the
few cool nights we were there. The
nights were chilly, for it was very late
Autumn, though the days were warm and
fair; the camp fires of forty thousand
men or more lit up the sky of hight, I'M
til the heavens were all aglow, and the
brilliant stars, Immediately overhead,
we're ohscured, and the moonlight seemed
of apaler and weaker hue. Sprinfeld
was surrounded by camps, and encircled
with a wall of fire. And where was
Sterling then2 Double quicking it to
Arkansas. The General who had been
so brave at Lexington, where, with thirty
thousand men he subdued three thousand,
did not have the courage to meet an equal
force at Springfield afterwards. Gen.
Price is famous for proclamations, ap-
peals and for attacking small bodies of
Union soldiers; but he is not the Gene
raj nor the man to give battle or stand
his ground when a force equal to his is
at hand. Well, Price has espoused a bad
cause, is aware of it, and knows it will
never do to fisk a battle with equal num-
bers, for his life would not be worth a
mullen stalk.
But, let us further trace the path of
the Regiment. We turned our faces to
the north, and leaving Springfield. re-
passed through Bolivar. Quincy and
Warsaw. After having passed through
Warsaw we marched directly north to
Sedalia, leaving Syracuse to the right,
we marched through Sedalia and camped
near Georgetown, where our path stop
ped another month. 1t was while we
we're camped near Georgetown that a
band of mounted rebels captured one of
our foraging parties, when the nell were
scattered getting forage, and most of
them unarmed. They took some of our
mems guns, overeoats, hats and shoes,
and gave come cd coats, caps and shoes
in return. They made~the teamsters
drive the teams like mad, northward, IN
til they feared they would be o~vertaken,
when they left them and sought safety
in a more rapid flight; and well for them
they did, for the news had come early
into camp and spread like wild fire. All
the officers of our regiment. save two or
three, all of the Ohio 9th and 39,h
mounted steeds, and led by Col. Thayer,
where on their track. One company of
our regiment struck the double quick;
and a detail of ten from each company
commanded by Capt. Livingston went in
wagons. And woe betlde the rebels whom
they shall chance to meet.
In the course of a month after the ret
rOgrade from Springfield we took up win.
ter quarters in Georgetown, a town about
thirty years old, but rather small of its
age. Since we have been here our path