Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-04
For the Daily State Sentinel
Letter from the Seventseth.
CAMP BFS uARRisoxl


Bowling Green. by. Aug. 81.
Sunday in this camp i day Of rest and
the boys try to improve IL by writing letters home.
We are relieved from company and battalion
drill which is awful tight on tie boys these warm
DAYS
We turned our flannel undergarmen;s this
morning and attended divine service and were
highly edited with the discourse The doxolo-
gy was not sung in the same style exactly that
our hymn books called for; il was three cheers
and a tiger, which rather astonisbed our worthy
Chaplain himself, thinking they had got bo,d OF
the wrong book.
We have not vet, from what can hear from
old soldiers. seen the beauty Of the brick work in
soldier business, for We are comfortably situated
and have plenty to eat OF all the decacies Of the
season. The guard lines crowded from morn
ing all night with the saddle colored part OF the
community selling everything in the eating line
peach cobolers, chicken pies, milk. &c, and they
find good market. for the boys are all flush and
can't stand the pressure sheet iron biscuit and
fat bacon.
Amu>ements are plenty in camp in the evening
after e-s larade. In one part of the camp you
will see a minstrel band another burlesque
dress parade, in another perhaps the troubadore
armed fiddler holding forth. Now ard
then fight takes place, but not often. Ii is i'm
possible for the boys TO get sick; they have
enough fun TO drive away the spleen and regu-
late the circulation, and if they DO get little
blue around the mouth they get pass, go to
town and set around undertakers shop Tor an
hour or so and come back all right.
We have been for the last week blessed with
the company of several indianapolis ladies'
Mrs. Col. Harrison, Mrs. Major Vance. Mrs.
VIM. Wallace, Miss Cathcart, Miss Bette Bates.
Miss Vance, and also several gentlemen from
home could and would mention, but they are in
the shade when lady visitors here. They
called for all the mendng the boys had to do; il
was not long until the Captains quarters were
half full of AL sorts of garments-some wanted
buttons sewed on, Others pockets put in, and old
sewing machine rips closed They took the con
tract, which i thought was heavy one, fixed all
the things up, and took thanks for pay, which
the boys heartily gave.
We have Lieutenant in the regiment some
thing the Falstaff style He is very fond of
and gallant to the ladies; also loves good living
he was out foraging for milk and butter yester.
day We stopped at a country house where they
had those things, but were strong secesh; the
Lieutenant, gay Samson that he is, thought OF
course that his winning way would procure them
from the woman of the house; we walked in,
he asked her very politely if she would sell him
some butter. Thinking she did not look very
amiable. hacked She opened him heavy
solid shot and shell. The last | saw of him he
was bowling himself out, hat in hand: all he
could say was, Il give it up. madam" He says
that he has seen threshng machines, eight day
clocks aud fast horses, but she could beat them
all. He is not very well to day.
One of the boys was using fine tooth comb
this morning rather lively. Col Burgess dong
may he wave,) asked him what he did with the
inhabitants when he caught them. He answered
that he "paroled them and let them GO | ex
pect that others have done the same thing
great MANY fine tooth combs in use.
The health OF the 10Th is very good consider
ing tie water that have to drink. 1t is moi
quite Blue l. ok althou III the boys say so-ths
smell is there but not the taste.
We have been expecting To move for some
days. There is very announcement and dan
gerous neighbor below us-Morgan. They wan
US to get acquainted-we do not about al
introduction so soon--if forced we will give hin
the best we hive got in the house. The boy.
are not troubled in the least about him comins
here. They are skylarkiDg all day and sleep al
sound as IT they were in their old camp at In
dianapolis, and when called up at night by th'
long roll (Which we have been several times
they form "A line Of battle cool and steady a
if they were dress parade. Ii is the genera
impression about here that the 10th will do to sc
up with. BLAZE.