Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-04-25
For the Poneroy Weekly Telegraph.
Letter From the Camp.
CAMP IN THE WILDERNESS,
NEAR PITTSBURGH LANDING.

| Marcn outn, 1ooZ.
Mr. Eaitor:-I have just got hold Of
two Nos of the Telegraph, Git was hard
to get them, and still harder to keep
them) containing my letters, and I have
come to the conclusion that I did some
shocking bad writing, or else the printer
made mistakes. I was made to cay
"Isaac Sndu6," when it should have
been Linduff; Keen, when I meant seem;
and times, when tunes was what I meant
his time 1 mean to be very CAREFUL
If our friends in Meigs knew how ca
gerly Companies 81 and I grabbed at the
Telegraph, and perused it, am certain
they would send them more frequently
And now, Mr.. Editor, perhaps you
would like to know what we are doing,
or have done, or are going to do, away
here, and I answer you that I do not
know.
1 have just read Cincinnati daily,
at a cost of 20 cts, which informed me
that we had interrupted railroad COM
munication between Corinth and Jack
son, Tennessee, and that Gen. Sherman
had failed to interrupt communications
between certain other important points.
[ also read in the aforementioned
dailies, that the rebels had large force
at Corinth, Mississippi. But you knew
all this 5 days sooner than I did, so I
cannot consider it important news to
you.
All know is, that the SD Ohio, and
many other Regiments, so many that l
cannot even guess at the number, are
here in this Tennessee wilderness, doing
their best to eat their rations, and SUBJ
ject to that most persevering of all dis
eases, Tennessee Dysentery.
We have made two marches, what is
called reconnaissance, in force, believe,
and attended one Brigade inspection.
During the marches, your correspondent
saw nothing but woods, and at the in
spection, he was exercised in mind, to
know what Gen. Sherman thought of
the martial appearance and effective
ness of the SD. Now this finishes up
military affairs, and I will do the
country, natives, &c. The country lies
well, to use common expression, but
the soil looks poor and the timber is
small. A native told me, that this was
the poorest part of the State, and 1 pre-
sumo he was right. There are thou
sands of farmers here in our army, from
all parts of the Union, good judges of
soil, and I have not conversed with
single one of them that was willing to
be buried here. The natives are hard
to find, and not worth much when found.
I took stroll the other day to see
things in general. I passed number
of deserted log dwellings with similar
out buildings attached; in many of these
little log pens, could be seen piles of
cotton put up very carefully, till mar
ket could be had, l suppose. Our
troops are not allowed to meddle with
private property, so it was just as safe
as if the owner had been at home, and
when we leave here he will probably re-
turn, and go to work as if nothing had
At another place the folks
were at home In small field close to
the house, was negro woman plough
ing Her team was long legged, lean
colt, years old perhaps, that looked as
if it had lain dead awhile. The plough
was evidently intended for a shovel
plough, according to some unknown
patent. The owner of the estate was
standing in the doer-yard, surrounded
by some curious soldiers, who were put
ting questions, and bartering for corn
bread or drink of butter milk, or some
such delicacy. He was clothed in the
inevitable butter-nut colored clothes,
that is SO distinguishing feature of
this section, and was evidently Union
man for the present. One of those
persons who are for the "upper dog i'll
the fight
1t seems to me that if these "Citizens'
were taken in hand, their hair cut, I'm
Gle Sans uniform put on them, and
then swear them to support the Consti
tuition of the United States, and never
wear Jutternut again, that We would
more effectually dispose Of the rebellion
and benefit the aforesaid citizens. 1t
is so much pleasanter to look at our
Northern soldiers than the poor 'nsmd
sHls" of this region, that [ bid them
good bye for the present. | will only
say this, that large number of the Ten
nesseeans have enlisted in Ohio Regi
ments, and it has helped their looks
wonderfully, Our gunhoats have made
a deep impression upon the minds of
the people of this region; number of
them have enlisted in the gunboat ser
vice, and they all want to get on gun
boat if possible; they feel safer there
than anywhere else.
Soldiers life is teaching our country
boys many useful lessons, which will be
invaluable to them in future life.
once thought that bad hal its would be