The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1862-08-28

the hill The robbers 5ftar steoling
everything about the premises, skelad
died in great haste for lear Of the Homo
Guards, who are very strong in that see
ton ofcoantry They bore Wichcr of
in lilep he being to badly wounded to
ride.
This man Wicher is certainly tue
most infuriotei madman | ever saw
Heis "a lean-h hungry villain--a
mere anatomy, living dead man," but
at the same time the most sayoge and
demoniac in his conduct you can con
ceivo OF. His inhuman treatment Of Moi
Hall beggars description, and calls for
prompt and speedy vengeance on part Of
the friends OF the latter. His crew of
brigand looked TO me like the "cankers
OF calm world altera long peace or
like tattered prodigaIs lately come from
swine.keeping, "hOyng but about shirt
and half in the whole compony, and
the halfshirI two napkins tackled togelh.
or and thrown over the shoulders" and
the whole shirt stolen off the wash liue
of some poor Unionist. Even Wicher
cursed them as troop Of cut throats and
thieves. Yet he, as one of the F. r,
VS., did not scrupIe to lead these dov.
lis in their maraudIrg expedition, and
make himself ierror to the whole COM
munity Suatton is man Of a different
stamp, gentlemanly u his manners, and
evidently man Of feelrng,he seems TO be
out of his element among such men,
That taey think so, we judge from the
fact that nothing could have induced
them to leave Wicher behind, yet they
made no offer to remove Stratton.
Maj Hall died in about two hours az
ter he was shot Though suffering in
tense agony, not groan escaped his
lips. He died as camly as though 60,
ing to sleep. Rev. Gregg who had been
released by the rebels US Chaplain, walk
ed seven miles after coffin but without
success. The next day we spenlin dig
ging graves with a piece Of mottock
and wooden shovel. AT in tho eve,
ming we committed the bodies of our
friends to the earth, the rebels not leav.
ing US even a blanket to wrap them IN
IA man BY the name Of Johnson, who by
tbe way, wanted to come with US, had
bAen left as nurse to Strauon. For
him was exchanged, and al 10 O'clock
of the same night of the burial, we took
up our weary march for Sandy. making
95 miles in three days on short rations,
and coming to the Ohio river at 0alletts-
burg.
The Union sentiment is very strong
through the region we traversed. But
they have neither arms nor amunition.-
If they had, every guerrilla wtuld be
"squelChcd' at once Wo.wsro kindly.
treated, and 10 two or three instances
warned OF rowing bands of Thieves being
in the neighborhood
Icunnot close this already too long
letter. withouta a word 10 behalf of our
beloved Major. Brave and generous to
fault, none knew him but to love him.
Having military education, he gave
promise Of becoming a very useful man
III this crisis But alas the ruthless
hand of treason has cut him down in the
bloom Of youth cut shor, his career Of
usefulness, and enshrouded loving fam.
lily and hosts Of friends in the deepest al.
Fiction. They have the sympathy ola
loyal citizens in their sad bereavement
They hove the proud satisfaction Of
knowing that he died an honorable
death, lighting for his country. His
memory will live long after his cruel
murderers have sunk into dishonorable
graves and forgotten, or if otherwise,
remember only 10 be execrated and de.
tested. The boy hero "sleeps his last
sleep" in the sacred soil" mado so
by the blood Of such as he, and to-day il
calls aloud for veng9nce against the op.
pressors of the land. Brave heart =
Kind friend ? Brother ia arms, fare
well. Wemay say Of him
"His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say to all the world, This irGs a mar"
NJ. STEWART.
Sergeant Co. X 4th Va. Reg.