The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-11-14
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE
CoLunpIA, Ky, Oct. %, 1862.

4Sth Indiana are here the And is within
eight miles of Lebanon, at Rolling Fork,
and the S0th at Lebanon. These are all
the regiments here I believe, containing
companies from Southern Indiana
Woods Division was within ten miles
of Perryyille during the fight; could
hear the continued roaring of the can
non, but could get no orders to advance
to the scene of action. The men and
officers of the And and 80th, l am pleas
ed to learn from men of other regiments
who fought on the same field with them,
conducted themselves in manner wor-
thy of themselves and their State. They
were in the thickest of the fight, at times
within close contact and in full view of
the enemy. Both regiments have num-
-ber of men killed and wounded. Col
Jones, Lieut.. Colonel DENLY and Major
Shanklin acted coolly and brayely. Maj.
Shanklin, fiery and impulsive in civil life,
is the same on the field of battle, and
moves amid the tumult perfectly at home.
These active, energetic spirits are the
men who, in this contest, are breaking
the rebel power and planting the Union
standard on the citadels of treason. An
able historian tells US that nothing is
more common than the belief that an
impulsive, headlong man cannot be long
headed, while history proves that few
others ever accomplish anything From
Alexander down to Bonaparte, these i'm
petuous beings have always had the
grandest plans, and executed them.
There can hardly be more impetuous
man than oBonaparte, and ne had q
clearer head and sounder judgment than
all his Generals put together.
The weather here has been very cool
for several days, and, as few of the regi-
ments have tents with them, it is very
severe on the men. Last Saturday night
it showed four inches deep, and from 4
p NJ Saturday until 10 A. NJ Sunday, the
temperature was several degrees below
freezing point. The soldiers collected
straw, corn fodder and rails and made
a rude shelter, but as none had more than
one blanket, and some not even that,
they could sleep but little, and spent most
Of the night around huge fires built un-
der large oak trees. In the morning the
old forest looked gloomy and repulsive.
The trees with heavy foliage, as green as
in midsummer, were bending, creaking
and breaking beneath their heavy load
of snow So much snow at so early q
period in the season is unusual here.
Citizens say the like has never been seen
by the Oldest inhabitant who has resided
here since the early settlement of the
country.
Camp life is now dull. The weather
is cold, and very little transpiriug around
US ofinterest, and the mails reach US SO
seldom and SO irregularly, that we know
hut little of what is going on in the out
side world. i have been amusing myself
for few days with a pocket edition o.
Moores Lallah Rookh. How chaste
how beautiful and how lovely are it's sen
timentsl Like apples of gold in picture.
Of silver, they stand before the mind,
eye as "a thing of beauty and Will,
reading Paradise and the Peri" W,
think Of the graves of Eden and tn,
white-robed angels. esa-
Then how touching are Hinda's word
of anguish at the early departure of he
lover, as she in grief exclaims:
"oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour,
| I've seen my fondest hopes decay;
never loved tree or flower
| But twas the first to fade away;
never nurse d q dear gazelle,
To glad me with its soft black eye,
But when it came to know me well, --
And love me, 1t was sure to die.'
! These tender verses carry me back +
my youthful days, when my own youn
heart was wrung with anguish, and / to
poured forth bitter lamentations at m
own loss, the death of a favorite houn
pup-but, as A. Ward says, pups wer
thon my forte. 49,
| Last January, nearly year ago,
left Louisville with grand army tha
moved Southward. We crossed Ker
lucky and Tennessee, and penetrate
into a portion of Alabama and Missi
sippi, retraced our steps, and in Octobe
are again at Louisville. In an articl
4 in your columns, which l wrote Ma
2lst, while our army was before Corintl
/ informed you that the soldiers of th
Union army we're for fght-that we b,
lieved that "cold steel, and not a mill
and-water policy, would end the contest.
Nearly one year has rolled by, and on
forces are turned South; and as we loo
back over the past year, and count th
graves of the soldiers we have burie'
and think of the blood and treasul
spent, it looks as if our progress W;
light in proportion to the time, blco,
and treasure spent. Strategy has take
the place of cool, determined ightin
The harvest has passed, the summer
; ended, and the Republic is not save
As the army is being reorganized, ca
! not the power of the people, and Il
, voice of the press, force the Departmel
to adopt more vigorous measures. tt
patriotism, strength, and resources
the North are abundant, and if bold ar
, vigorous attacks are made, and thel
. rapidly followed up, in few months Il
rebellion would be wiped out When Il
. news of Bonaparte's great success
Italy reached France, nobleman r