Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-21
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Editors Intelliyeneer:
1t has been some time since addressed
you. For two months or more hardly
saw your sheet at all for withus guerrilla
hunters, getting the papers AID the news
is literally out of the question, except Mt
chance times and we find that oei1g de-
priYcd of the same is not one of the least,
among the many. priyations of n soldiers
life. During this long silence, correspond
euce was pot only impracticnble, but most
OF the time impossible, though many occur
rences and adventures tr0nspired during
the time well worth recording.
Col. Harris regiment has become ter
ror to the bushwhackers, and is doing the
most effectual service among ;them, not
withstanding it is known us tthe "bogus
10TH" aud is, rs the Sd was list summer,
scattered all Rbou', operatitg in various
places son the earth and undef the earth"
The men in the 10th are iustEthe material
to make Hbully" soldiers, although the Off
GERS have yet something to learn. Where
the 10th operates not only the bushwhaek-
ers themselves, but their "fair aids,n (their
wives and daughters) are taught there sis
yet God in Israel, and that even women
abiding, and not@be allowed to carry the
mail, cut the telegraph, and do violence to
justice and honor at their discretion.
Our go-ahead Yankee Lieut.. Col. Hall,
at Beverly, has bridled some of the rebel
lous, inveterate F., F. Y.'s with the oath
and we heard the other day that he had ten
more of the fair traitors in limbo. It's seems
that the last thing n rational woman could
do would be to rebel against our govern
ment; and yet some of our most infatuated,
obstinate and dangerous rebels are women,
a word, which in civilized society, is de-
fined as the embodiement of all that is no.
BILE, pure and refined.
But what made me pick up my pen this
evening was a letter in the Cincinnatti
Times, from a member of the 9th Ohio.-
One unacquainted with the actual state of
affairs might suppose from his doleful tale,
that the Ohio boys we're suffering all kinds
of hardships and impositions, while the Vir-
ginia boys fatted and rode like paymas-
9ter's clerk.
We all know that the gallant troops of
the Buckeye State have done and suffered
almost all that men could; but they have
not been alone. #i ia q
Last year while we Virginia boys were
hunting bushwhackers and horse thieves,
the greater part of the 9th Ohio, if mis-
take not, lay some four or. five months at
our. pleasant little county town. But we
did not complain, we were willing, anxious,
to do the 'tLtonsr share of the work in our
country though we could not see the use
Of so many soldiers resting idly at Buck
hannon,
Now our troops have all been for some
months in active service. Side by side the
representatives of the loyal states have
itoiled nobly in their country's cause
Among them are foundth down trodden
but unyieldtng sons of North 4western .yir-
giniA, who honor andlaud the self-sacrif-
cling, heroic valor of the troops from onr
sister States. Every philanthropfst weeps
at their sufferings -every patriot admires.
idolises their heroic devotion TO our glori-
Gus canse butiwho can praise the yalor or
syupathizs with :he snfferings of the Jrp.
orsd feU to the detriment of the many,
when they are all brothers. Sighting and
enduring for the preservation of the same
sacred Institutions, hand in hand and
shoulder to shoulder One always feels
like coudeming the sectional spirit, the lit
tie soul, that wants all the praise and all
ewide world sympathy for mpguani-
nous |.
All honor to loyal Ohio and her noble
sons, and that they may get the ''lion's
share" of the laurels. | am HOPEFUL.
So d