The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-08-08
raoM THE a5Tu OHIO.
CAsP AT SrERRYvrLLr, Va,
July 26th 1862.


10Th leit camp Chase and came into Va; u
and how many changes have taken place
since that time. Some Of our compon-
ions that came out with US who like our
selves expected to get safely through this
war, now lie In the cold embrace Of
d nth, and others are crippled for life aud
will never be able to endure any hard
ships; aud the hardships and exposure on
Cheat Mountain and the numerous bat !
ties that our regiment has been in have
reduced il from 1000 able bodied men, TO
less than 400; but such are the fortunes
Of war, ard we must submit and do the
best we can Under the circumstances thnt
surround us.
We LEFT Strasburg, the 9th Of this
month, and came to Middetown, and from
there we took another road and went to
Font Royal and cGmped close to the
town, and OF this camp were taken out Of
Gen. Mlroy's brigade and transferred to
Gen. Schencks brigade commanded by
Col. McLain of the 10Th Ohio, and the
s5d Ohio (Col. Cantwcll) took our place
in Milroy's brigade. The transfer was
made because our officers wanted to get
into brigade composed Of Ohio troops;
but, II the question had been LET to the
regiment to vote on II, we would have
staid with Nilroy for, ever since the Me-
Dowcll fight and short time before, we
all thought considerable of him.
The day we went through Front Roy.
al the weather was 80 hot that four Of the
Germans dropped dead from sun stroke,
and several Of cur regiment were sick
rom c sume cause. We reached
LurOy, the 9th and cnmped close to the
town, which is 20 miles from Front Roy
al and, the 10th VIC crossed, the Blue
Ridge and campcd at this place, at the
foot OF the mountain, aud are still camp.
ed here.
The country through here is a success
sion Of hills, almost mountains, nothing
20 be sccn bot mountains and hills all
around.
We are 90 miles from CYlpepper
Court House, 60 miles from Gordonsvlle
and 81 from Warrenton. We have oil
been out Of spirits (as the saying is,) ever
since we came here. The next day after
we got here, we were on less than halt
ratons aud 1t has been 30 till within the
last two or three days; and, what was al
most as bad, yesterday VIC received the
erst mail for over two weeks. We could
get no news fiom home and, most OF the
time, no news from the other army d.;
visions. Sometimes the newspaper ped
dlers came into camp and we can mar
II age to raise money enough between us l.
y buy ono. But now that they have go
the mail route established to thus division
: By Che way of Washington and Warren
ton, I hope that we will get mail regular
" ~.
" The weather has been very warm Cu
> the last two weeks, which makes it ratt
u or unpleasant to be cut from two TO iy
hours in tho forenoon and one to two !
the afternoon on battalion and compan
, drill and once week on brigade drill.
=, I noticed in the Crawford county popC
N an extract from speech Of the rigl
A., Hon. Vallandigham, headed ~ We
a. Timed Suggestion" which said that ii
forty thousand w,de-bwokcs that were
% Ohio in the Presidential campaign, wou'
never cnlht and, ifthc Republicans won
enlist thirty five thousand of them, h
/. would see Cor something similar that hy
c, thousand stout, true-hearted democrat
10 were sent down to see that they woul
l., not run. Now suppose that five thousar
just such men were to engage the encn
with the right Hon. " to head them.
wouTd take few of thcse men that
'e speaks of and some really good democrat
~ that love the Union, TO use the bayon,
~ to keep them from "about face" and rul
ming. TO see which, is the best on a 70,
" race, they or the rebels.
~ Isuppose you had good time in II
> city, the 4th. We would have been eli
Ir We Gould have been there with you; b,
g. duty calls us in this part ofthe coantr
ns The fourth with us passed of yer Y plea
" antly in Gen. milroy's brigade. Thi
E teen rounds were fred from Capt. Johl
'' sons battery and speech frem the Gcr
W cral. The Declaration of Indcpenden nc
was read by Major Webster of the 25t
\, aud singing and music By Che Band, an
thus ended another 4th.
:. A good many Of the boys thought n
I, war would be over by the 4th, but "
think, from the way 1t is going on no,
~ that 1t wont be over by next 4th of July
" The health of the 25th and also Of Il
" other regiments is very good, consideriI
- - the hot weather; and 80 will conelu,
this short and badly written epistle.
rours obediently,
us r NIB.